Thought Catalog Schmidt Quotes & Sayings

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. — John Lennon

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them. — Idina Menzel

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before. — Brandon Sanderson

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia. — Emm Cole

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. — Brian W. Aldiss

There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that. — M.M. Kaye

You are ... Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. -Bella — Stephenie Meyer

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. — Arthur Boyd

Life had coincidences. Serendipity abounded. Wrong place, wrong time. It came as the result of seven billion people jostling each other within the span of a single planet. But there was an unwritten rule in police work: There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences. — David Baldacci