Sharenote Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves. — Edward Bond

Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure? — Charlotte Bronte

Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them. — Fernando Lachica

Why do you care so badly that I live, if while alive, I am already dead? — Monica Sanz

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always — Viktor Chernomyrdin

I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night."
He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep. — Kristin Cashore

You're right, though - the easy, happily-ever-after kind of love is a myth. Love is more than that. It's a decision to care about someone even when you want to strangle them and to forgive them for not being perfect. Love is hard work. It involves real risk and, sometimes, real loss. But if you don't let yourself believe in the person you love, then you miss out on the good in them and the chance to have a real partner — Ruth Cardello

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being. — Paul Simonon

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. — Robert Charles Wilson

Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals. — Eleanor Antin

If you had to hide me amidst your thoughts, where would you hide me ? Promise me you would put me somewhere beautiful, where i can hide quietly forever ? — Srividya Srinivasan

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science. — Daniel Tammet