Gouden Quotes & Sayings

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control. — Darren Johnson

Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum

Harry Potter must not go back to Hogwarts.
"Harry Potter must stay where he is safe. He is too great, too good, to lose. If Harry Potter goes back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger."
"Why?" said Harry in surprise.
"There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year. — J.K. Rowling

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. — Marcel Theroux

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls! — Graham Kerr

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them. — Timothy West

If I follow my dream and it shatters - I can accept having to regret that. But I don't want to regret not pursuing it in the first place. — Tsugumi Ohba

Then Rosalind began popping into his mind again, and he found his lips forming her name over and over. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame. — Carol Gilligan

Writing poetry is a pleasure, ... a pleasure out of hell — Kenneth Slessor

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever. — Daniel Mendelsohn

I see signs of it wherever
racial, gender, sexual, and class identity politics are no longer totalizing but transcended-not negated-in creative exchange with other — Victor Anderson