Shortlist Literary Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, captivity again and horsemeat! Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it's only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come. — Leo Tolstoy

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them. — Imran Khan

In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.) — Catullus

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. — Henry Cloud

I don't think there's anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on. — David Nicholls

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing. — Avicii

It's a quiet revolution begun by ordinary people with the stuff of our daily lives. — Bill McKibben