Classic Lovable Quotes & Sayings

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other. — Janet Morris

The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing. — Sandra Dodd

Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise. — David Gemmell

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice. — Ha Jin

It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do. — Hazel Hawke

The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian reform in Anna Karinina, until you suddenly got to a good part again, which kept on getting better and better until you were almost grateful for the previous dull stretch because it increased your eventual pleasure. All of a sudden, Leonard was his old self again, extroverted, energetic, charismatic, and spontaneous. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. — Christian Morgenstern

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going. — Romeo Dallaire

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass. — John C. Calhoun

To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage, through suffering to strength, requires resilience. — Eric Greitens

So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while. — Taylor Swift