Speichern Unter Quotes & Sayings

William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it and I remember thinking, "You could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't put this book down." I loved that feeling - and want to give it others. — Harlan Coben

I think about what will happen if no one fights back. I think about a world where no one stands up to injustice. — Tahereh Mafi

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country. — Terry Zwigoff

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW. — Sakyong Mipham

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed. — Sally Brampton

I don't actually like touring. — Jeff Lynne

Wisdom is a sacred communion. — Victor Hugo

Everything has been something before. — Alexander McCall Smith

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. — Confucius

I cried then, holding nothing back. For empty years, yearning for the touch of a hand. Hollow years, lying beside a man I had betrayed, for whom I had no tenderness. For the terrors and doubts and griefs of the day. Cried for him and me and for Mary MacNab, who knew what loneliness was - and what love was, as well. — Diana Gabaldon

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. — Jennifer Dunn

(I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living? — James A. Michener

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being? — Matthieu Ricard

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being. — Rashida Jones