- Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
- Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
- In the end it's never what you worry about that gets you.
- You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses it’s own downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well planned, how apparently foolproof an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.- Good Omens
- This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.- Gemma Doyle Trilogy
- It’s not always easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys.
- Sinners can surprise you – and the same is true for saints. Why do we try to define people as simply good or evil? Because no one wants to admit that compassion and cruelty can live side by side in one heart. And that anyone is capable of anything.
- The world has no edge. You must learn to see beyond the little men.- Uglies
- Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster,they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.- Muhammad Ali
- In the end, we are all who we are no matter how much we may have appeared to have changed.
- To him who is in fear, everything rustles.- Sophocles
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.- Bertrand Russell
- The rules of magic are best not discussed. For once we understandthe illusion, we nolonger believe in it.
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books,history is silent, literature is dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out now the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm,the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause,who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- To give any less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- You can always go back to your soulmate. That's what makes them your soulmate.
oct 19 2008 ∞
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