Howls Moving Castle Wallpaper Quotes & Sayings

We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk. — Mary Pipher

I rested my forehead against hers. "I want you to be happy."
"You, too," she whispered. — Katie McGarry

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too. — James Altucher

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. — T. S. Eliot

People are good and people are bad, sometimes one right after the other, sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes, — Bobby Adair

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived. — Will Durant

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. — David Morrell

Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"
I don't hate you."
Could've fooled me."
She folded her cap of invisibility. "Look ... we're just not supposed to get along, okay? Our parents are rivals."
Why?"
She sighed. "How many reasons do you want? One time my mom caught Poseidon with his girlfriend in Athena's temple, which is hugely disrespectful. Another time, Athena and Poseidon competed to be the patron god for the city of Athens. Your dad created some stupid saltwater spring for his gift. My mom created the olive tree. The people saw that her gift was better, so they named the city after her."
They must really like olives."
Oh, forget it."
Now, if she'd invented pizza-that I could understand. — Rick Riordan

We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers. — Scott Ritter

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly. — John Romaniello

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company. — John Van Hamersveld

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop. — Robin Wright

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide. — Richard Branson

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not. — Seth Shostak

But I do enjoy words - some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent - — Alasdair Gray