Hardbound Notebook Quotes & Sayings

People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world."
"-In Pursuit of Silence — Doris Lessing

Katherine Mary, we're going to know each other very wel, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life. Your sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods- oh, so many things, you know them yourself. — Benedict Freedman

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people. — Gina Carano

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard. — Sarah Burton

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher. — Maria Montessori

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe. — Rabih Alameddine

So you must have seen the article on them today."
"Not yet, but I was just about to take a break. Gotta have my Dilbert fix."
"Is that the one about the office? I was a Calvin and Hobbes fan for years. Hated to see that stop and haven't really gotten into any of the new ones. Guess I'm behind the times."
"You like what you like. Nothing wrong with that."
"That's what my wife says." De la Cruz's eyes drifted around again. "So, a couple people said both of them came into this club last night."
"Calvin and Hobbes? One was a kid and the other a tiger. Neither would have gotten past my bouncers."

-De La Cruz & Xhex — J.R. Ward

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry. — Jim Lynch

There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old. — Michael Ondaatje

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. — Will Smith

Everyone believed him of course, but you always knew with Salome that if anyone's head was going to roll it wouldn't be hers. — Margaret Atwood