Collective Quotes
Continuously collected list of quotes...
[ x] Previously noted quotes
[ x] Quotes from Uglies series
--> "What would you title the movie of your life?"
"Increments. It's what my father said to me every morning before I left for school. He meant every test, every quiz, every paper adds up to the final grade. In life, everything counts."
--> "Favorite time of day?"
"The moment my head hits the pillow. That's when I close my eyes and decide if I'm the person I meant to be when I got up."
- Wentworth Miller
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
- e.e. cummings
"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
- Jean Paul Richter
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London
"What I remember is not your leaving, but your not coming back."
- Unknown
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No one writes songs about the ones that come easy."
- Logan Echolls, Veronica Mars
"True love stories never have endings."
- Veronica Mars
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”
- Victor Hugo.
"When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear."
- Mark Twain.
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
- Napoleon Hill
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
- Edward Bloom, Big Fish
"The thing about icebergs is you only see 10 percent of them. The other 90 percent is below the water where you can’t see it. And that’s what it is with you Dad. I’m only seeing this little bit that sticks above the water."
- Will Bloom, Big Fish
"Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise."
- Big Fish
"Let me catch my breath before you take it away again."
- Simone, Heroes
"Maybe being different isn't the end of the world. It's just who I am."
- Claire Bennet, Heroes
"Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle
One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason
- William Wordsworth
"You can call me cute if it'll make you hug me tighter!"
- Unknown
"Being held in your arms for only a few seconds takes all the pain of the world away from me."
- Unknown
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you."
- Unknown
"“When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.”
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us."
- Matthew Fox
"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
- Carl Sagan
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
- George Orwell, 1984
Will the water get warm or will I just get used to the cold?
20 years now and I'd still rather sleep than grow old.
- Tyler Gould
"Life and death; energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above."
- Gia Carangi, Gia
"þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg"
(that passed over, so may this)
- Old English saying
"Devotion is diligence without assurance."
- Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Love, Pray
“Why do we have baby pink for girls? Where did that come from? In medieval color charts, there were not names such as red or blue, but they actually gave nature words, like beau soleil. We are so touched by color all the time.”
- Pascal Dangin
"There is grandeur in this view of life... endless and beautiful forms of life, such as you see in a common hedgerow, including exalted beings like ourselves, arose from physical laws, from war of nature, famine, and death. This is the grandeur. And a bracing kind of consolation in the brief privilege of unconsciousness."
- Ian McEwan, Saturday
"A book invites argument, invites reconsideration, invites thought. A moving picture is beyond thought. Like feeling, it simply is. The principle of a book is persuasion; the principle of a movie is revelation.
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
"Happy is he who steps outside
in the way we enter a church."
- Sylvain Trudel, Mercury Under My Tongue
They can be like a sun, words.
They can do for the heart
what light can
for a field.
- St. John of the Cross
"Blindness cuts people off from things. Deafness cuts people off from people."
- Helen Keller
“On Tuesday, she woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word impossible. She decided it must not have been important.”
- Monique Duval, The Persistence of Yellow
"Once you get over the fear, then it's a cinch," she said. And then she leaped into a mountainous and unexplored region of her heart.
- Monique Duval, The Persistence of Yellow
"I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that hapiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consenquence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"Or in the light of deeper eyes
Is matter for a flying smile."
- Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
"Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying."
- Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy.
But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable.
You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And the context is everything.
The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.
- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live
The lotus blossoms silently. The sunshine weaves a rainbow. A drop of water feeds an ocean. A split second becomes eternal.
- Chun Yi: The Legend of Kung Fu
"'The adventure you're ready for is the one you get.' Life is short; go for it."
- Joseph Campbell/Jeff Probst
“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ x] Previously noted quotes
[ x] Quotes from Uglies series
--> "What would you title the movie of your life?"
"Increments. It's what my father said to me every morning before I left for school. He meant every test, every quiz, every paper adds up to the final grade. In life, everything counts."
--> "Favorite time of day?"
"The moment my head hits the pillow. That's when I close my eyes and decide if I'm the person I meant to be when I got up."
- Wentworth Miller
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
- e.e. cummings
"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
- Jean Paul Richter
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London
"What I remember is not your leaving, but your not coming back."
- Unknown
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No one writes songs about the ones that come easy."
- Logan Echolls, Veronica Mars
"True love stories never have endings."
- Veronica Mars
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”
- Victor Hugo.
"When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear."
- Mark Twain.
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
- Napoleon Hill
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
- Edward Bloom, Big Fish
"The thing about icebergs is you only see 10 percent of them. The other 90 percent is below the water where you can’t see it. And that’s what it is with you Dad. I’m only seeing this little bit that sticks above the water."
- Will Bloom, Big Fish
"Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise."
- Big Fish
"Let me catch my breath before you take it away again."
- Simone, Heroes
"Maybe being different isn't the end of the world. It's just who I am."
- Claire Bennet, Heroes
"Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle
One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason
- William Wordsworth
"You can call me cute if it'll make you hug me tighter!"
- Unknown
"Being held in your arms for only a few seconds takes all the pain of the world away from me."
- Unknown
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you."
- Unknown
"“When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.”
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us."
- Matthew Fox
"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
- Carl Sagan
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
- George Orwell, 1984
Will the water get warm or will I just get used to the cold?
20 years now and I'd still rather sleep than grow old.
- Tyler Gould
"Life and death; energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above."
- Gia Carangi, Gia
"þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg"
(that passed over, so may this)
- Old English saying
"Devotion is diligence without assurance."
- Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Love, Pray
“Why do we have baby pink for girls? Where did that come from? In medieval color charts, there were not names such as red or blue, but they actually gave nature words, like beau soleil. We are so touched by color all the time.”
- Pascal Dangin
"There is grandeur in this view of life... endless and beautiful forms of life, such as you see in a common hedgerow, including exalted beings like ourselves, arose from physical laws, from war of nature, famine, and death. This is the grandeur. And a bracing kind of consolation in the brief privilege of unconsciousness."
- Ian McEwan, Saturday
"A book invites argument, invites reconsideration, invites thought. A moving picture is beyond thought. Like feeling, it simply is. The principle of a book is persuasion; the principle of a movie is revelation.
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
"Happy is he who steps outside
in the way we enter a church."
- Sylvain Trudel, Mercury Under My Tongue
They can be like a sun, words.
They can do for the heart
what light can
for a field.
- St. John of the Cross
"Blindness cuts people off from things. Deafness cuts people off from people."
- Helen Keller
“On Tuesday, she woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word impossible. She decided it must not have been important.”
- Monique Duval, The Persistence of Yellow
"Once you get over the fear, then it's a cinch," she said. And then she leaped into a mountainous and unexplored region of her heart.
- Monique Duval, The Persistence of Yellow
"I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that hapiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consenquence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"Or in the light of deeper eyes
Is matter for a flying smile."
- Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
"Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying."
- Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy.
But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable.
You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And the context is everything.
The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.
- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live
The lotus blossoms silently. The sunshine weaves a rainbow. A drop of water feeds an ocean. A split second becomes eternal.
- Chun Yi: The Legend of Kung Fu
"'The adventure you're ready for is the one you get.' Life is short; go for it."
- Joseph Campbell/Jeff Probst
“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett