Quotable Quotes

“People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.”
― J.A. Konrath, The List

“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loving. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good times. Good deeds.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.”
― Ryan Lilly

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.”
― Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

“The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.”
― George Bernard Shaw:

“Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“When you repay evil with evil, you become evil.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?”
― Michelle Dennis Evans

“The prejudiced are easily manipulated.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning”
― Ryan Lilly

“A happy person can always enjoy the scenery when life takes them on
a detour.”
― Positively Sherry

“Begone from this body!' bellowed Scharley. 'You catamite fucked in the arse!”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm

“السيئات يذهبن الحسنات...
الجميلات يذهبن العقل...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“أجمل الأوطان، تلك التي تأخذ شكل امرأة...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“True love knows no fear.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status, whereas, an idiot's deficient words, become quotable, who carries a high rank.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“If you can replace more positive thoughts
in your mind than negative thoughts, your
perception of everyone and everything will change!”
― Positively Sherry

“Grace had always imagined that she would feel some sense of warning, at least for a millisecond before her life was transformed. She fancied that she was possessed of a hyper-vigilance, an awareness of a change in the cosmic field, much as animals can sense the coming of storms and earthquakes.”
― Susan Kraus, Fall From Grace

“… كل القطارات التي حملت سنيني أوصلتني إلى يديك
! ومتى وصلت، وجدت ذاكرتي لديك
! حتى القصائد كنت أكتبها، كأني الوحي في الكلمات يأخذني إليك
يا أجمل الأصوات في صدري تعبت،
…وآن أن أغفو قليلاً كالحمام براحتيك”
― Mahdi Mansour

“لا يجرح السيف غمداً وهو يطعنه!
ويجرح القلب صدرٌ وهو يحتضنُ…”
― Mahdi Mansour

“لم آتِ، لكني أتيتُ...
ومضيتُ لكن ما مضيتُ
قلقاً على شكل النهايةِ
لا ابتديتُ ولا انتهيتُ
ورأيتُ أني لو أراك
أريق بعدك ما رأيتُ..
الليل صبحٌ مضمرٌ
والضوء قبل صباه زيتُ
وأنا وأنت غمامتان
نضيء أجمل ما اكتويتُ
فعلام تجمعنا الأماكن
طالما الكلمات بيتُ؟!
وإلام نسكبُ والقناني
تحتسيني ما احتسيتُ
إني أطعتُ قصيدتي
وندمت أن نفسي عصيتُ”
― Mahdi Mansour

“أصعب رحيل على الإطلاق هو ذلك الذي يأخذ شكل البقاء...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“I wasn't just looking at photographs. I was walking through the aftermath of loving her.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“Hudson,

I keep starting this and stopping again because I can never decide which version of me is supposed to write it.

That sounds strange, doesn’t it?

Some days it feels as though several different people move through the same hours wearing my face. And none of them agree on what is real or what matters.

One of them wakes up early and tries very hard to be normal.

She drinks water, opens the curtains, reads things carefully, answers letters like someone who understands consequences.

Another version barely leaves the bed.

She lies there listening to the house breathe around her, floorboards settling, pipes humming, like the building itself is trying not to disturb her.

And then there is the one I don’t like speaking about.

She arrives later in the day.

She doesn’t feel like she belongs to me at all.”
― Jodie Kelly, A Lifetime Ago: The Disappearance of Florence Rivera