Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Author: Victor Hugo

Author: Victor Hugo

Quote #316504

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story

Author: Kat Howard
Quote #186873

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-

Author: Haruki Murakami
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The wheel of life: one generation rises like summer wheat, then withers and falls to seed. The wheel

Author: Frank Vertosick Jr.
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Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

Author: Christopher Paolini
Quote #329193

I lost my mind. I lunged at him and inhaled all of his fries standing up a foot away from the trash

Author: Mindy Kaling
Quote #481300

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pin

Author: Jack Nicklaus
Quote #494717

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Author: Jesse McCartney
Quote #107292

If you’ve got an idea, act on it up to its perfection.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #368742

That's No Ordinary Girl

Author: B.J. Neblett
Quote #12561

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in prin

Author: Alan W. Watts
Quote #280218

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

Author: Jim George
Quote #246639

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron

Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote #37023

I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #39798

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Quote #71224

To live in love is my life’s purpose.

Author: Kamand Kojouri
Quote #486692

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

Author: Shirin Neshat
Quote #213767

A friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinde

Author: Kate Mullane Robertson
Quote #457515

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Quote #149435

To be brave, you have to fight against something that scares you. That's the rule.

Author: C.M. Stunich
Quote #358902

...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.

Author: J.D. Netto
Quote #199843

Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.

Author: Steven Poore
Quote #40389

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Author: Howard Zinn
Quote #303709

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

Author: Buddy Wakefield
Quote #54491

The discovery of purpose is in connection to activities that inspires you the most.

Author: ANIKOR Daniel
Quote #306499

I love her beyond reason.

Author: Janet Mullany
Quote #453690

My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.

Author: Robyn Lively
Quote #10729

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosi

Author: François Mitterrand
Quote #303300

More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you

Author: Alice Walker
Quote #70835

Fear looks always on the darker side...

Author: Livy
Quote #421797

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged

Author: Nellie McClung
Quote #47686

Workers can offer guidance for improving the work.

Author: Rajen Jani
Quote #70381

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found aga

Author: John Corey Whaley
Quote #457360

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura

Author: Joseph Pulitzer
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I hoped Tia was different. Easier to manage for people like me, who didn’t naturally jive with the l

Author: Rachael Wade
Quote #239073

They comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love i

Author: Samuel Beckett
Quote #230182

The past informs the present.

Author: Fennel Hudson
Quote #286599

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstr

Author: Harper Lee
Quote #468430

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quote #37967

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
Quote #223050

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of

Author: Napoleon Hill
Quote #1183

He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against

Author: Colleen Houck
Quote #245158

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #410172

Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough

Author: Dinah Shore
Quote #266907

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, ther

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #47786

Knowledge is strength.

Author: Unknown
Quote #9340

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consi

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Quote #483268

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its

Author: William P. Leahy
Quote #41292

It's time for you to move on and realize that there is so much more to your life than what you see.

Author: Theresa Lewis
Quote #381588

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight.

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #312112

To find is the thing.

Author: Pablo Picasso
Quote #461022

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways

Author: Eddie Huang
Quote #74198

We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
Quote #57181

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks bu

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Quote #41435

I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t w

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Quote #189668

Let’s not wait until the light fades into irreparable loss, but let’s stay in the loop and pursue th

Author: Erik Pevernagie
Quote #387196

Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.A lobotomy wasn’t as effective as a weekend three hours of Red Bull a

Author: Christy Heron
Quote #61294

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote #384527

...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitu

Author: John Geddes
Quote #32553

Speranța e doar în infinitul posibilităților.

Author: Alexandru Lamba
Quote #412523

His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.

Author: Bill Dana
Quote #27104

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #376668

The only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enl

Author: Julio Alexi Genao
Quote #428852

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Mu

Author: Jerry Speyer
Quote #305302

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Author: Alex G. Zarate
Quote #326083

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to u

Author: Idries Shah
Quote #137734

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Author: Toni Morrison
Quote #418670

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

Author: Flannery O'Connor
Quote #258310

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote #347962

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

Author: Donald Maass
Quote #466596

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everyth

Author: Alison Sweeney
Quote #281171

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote #372594

...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving

Author: Dodie Smith
Quote #275080

When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap i

Author: Derrick Brown
Quote #377780

Realizing its fundamental importance in understanding spectral lines, in atomic physics and in the t

Author: Arthur I. Miller
Quote #240657

Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dign

Author: Rossana Condoleo
Quote #330753

Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.

Author: Jeffrey Fry
Quote #469923

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

Author: George Harrison
Quote #207183

He leaned up and nipped at her shoulder before reaching around to tease her nipples. "Talin." "Aye,

Author: Donna Grant
Quote #326403

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

Author: Nick Hornby
Quote #120030

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

Author: Don Piper
Quote #396853

In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, whic

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #190818

Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes y

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
Quote #74032

You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

Author: Ahmed Mostafa
Quote #108291

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their

Author: George Orwell
Quote #139521

The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompa

Author: Peter J. Leithart
Quote #399710

I'll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

Author: Henry Rollins
Quote #119468

Without continuous encouragement, we may give up.

Author: Unknown
Quote #34737

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition tha

Author: Samuel Butler
Quote #438413

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could

Author: Michael Chabon
Quote #343923

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Author: Kaye Gibbons
Quote #71612

You need to determine the field of your gift and enter into the realm of experts for that calling

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #497728

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading th

Author: Rupi Kaur
Quote #175350

Creativity is as important as literacy

Author: Ken Robinson
Quote #413084

In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.

Author: Theodore Tronchin
Quote #406357

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

Author: Michelene Wandor
Quote #15278

Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mi

Author: Diet Eman
Quote #349310

Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for

Author: Ilia Berends
Quote #322536

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has s

Author: Diana Peterfreund