Wikiquote Best Quotes & Sayings

And to forget one's own sharp absurd little personality, reputation and the rest of it, one should read; see outsiders; think more; write more logically; above all be full of work; and practise anonymity. Silence in company; or the quietest statement, not the showiest; is also "medicated" as the doctors say. It was an empty party, rather, last night. Very nice here, though. — Virginia Woolf

I see that you think more than you can express. But, if that's the case, you must also know that you have never fully lived out your thoughts, and that isn't good. Only the thoughts that we live out have any value. You knew that your 'permissible world' was only half the world, and you tried to hide away the second half from yourself, the way clergymen and teachers do. You won't succeed! No one can do that when he has once begun to think. — Hermann Hesse

Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening. — Weldon Burge

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. — Grover Cleveland

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth. — John Osborne

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said. — Ben Aaronovitch

My father had seen in a flash that they were all gunmen, so he told me to stand still, although we were right in a possible line of fire. If near a gun-fight and the weapons are wielded by amateurs, run for your life; if professionals are handling the trigger, stand still - they know where they are shooting. — William S. Hart

Bettering your life, getting a fresh start, the bright side. Spout these concepts daily and you will survive in Endora; you might even thrive. — Peter Hedges

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots. — Tom Brady

I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way. — McCoy Tyner

But my apology was a thousand apologies. — Deb Caletti

I used to hate being recognised. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. — John Piper

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. — Rush Limbaugh

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean - slowly, silently, and endlessly. — Debasish Mridha