Cebra Animada Quotes & Sayings

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. — Theodore Roosevelt

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose. — Lord Byron

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose. — P.G. Wodehouse

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. — Czeslaw Milosz

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one. — John Green

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. — Kate DiCamillo

Let's see
a prince defending your honor with his vast vocabulary and political competency
okay, maybe. But a rogue defending you with fists and bladed weaponry? No contest there! — Marcia Lynn McClure

Love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen. — Hermann Hesse

I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect. — Frankie Bow

...When you're mad it becomes easy to solve many difficult problems. Madness is a pair of Arabian Nights shoes; if you put them on you can leap clear of thousands of bogus questions.'
'Bogus questions? What exactly do you mean by bogus?'
'For instance, what will people say? What will happen in the future? — Rabindranath Tagore

People truly engaged in life have messy houses. — Ottessa Moshfegh

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. — Tori Amos

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. — George Pierce Baker

But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future. — Jeri Smith-Ready

The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. A classroom, just after school let out, at the beginning of winter. They had neither the power nor the knowledge to know what they should offer to each other, what they should be seeking. They had never, ever, been truly loved, or truly loved someone else. They had never held anyone, never been held. They had not idea, either, where this action would take them. What they entered then was a doorless room. They couldn't get out, nor could anyone else come in. The two of them didn't know it at the time, but this was the only truly complete place in the entire world. Totally isolated, yet the one place not tainted with loneliness. — Haruki Murakami