Category: Quotes

  • 10 inspiring quotes by langston hughes

    10 inspiring quotes by langston hughes

    10 inspiring quotes by langston hughes

    • Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
    • Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
    • Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
    • I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
    • Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
    • I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
    • Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
    • I loved my friend He went away from me There’s nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
    • I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
    • Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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  • 10 famous quotes by thomas hardy

    10 famous quotes by thomas hardy

    10 famous quotes by thomas hardy

    • Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
    • They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
    • A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
    • Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
    • People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
    • It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
    • Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
    • Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
    • Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
    • If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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  • 10 meaningful quotes by khalil gibran

    10 meaningful quotes by khalil gibran

    10 meaningful quotes by khalil gibran

    • The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
    • If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    • Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
    • Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
    • Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
    • Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
    • What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
    • Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
    • Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
    • What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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  • 10 great quotes by george eliot

    10 great quotes by george eliot

    10 great quotes by george eliot

    • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
    • Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
    • The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    • The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
    • Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
    • Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
    • It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
    • And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
    • Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
    • What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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  • 10 great quotes by john updike

    10 great quotes by john updike

    10 great quotes by john updike

    • It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
    • Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
    • Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
    • The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
    • How can you respect the world when you see it’s being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
    • Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
    • The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
    • The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
    • The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun’s just started.
    • Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
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  • 10 thoughful quotes by seamus heaney

    10 thoughful quotes by seamus heaney

    10 thoughful quotes by seamus heaney

    • If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.
    • I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.
    • Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
    • History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.
    • Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done.
    • If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.
    • So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.
    • The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
    • Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
    • The dotted line my father’s ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won’t wash away.
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  • 10 great quotes by hesiod

    10 great quotes by hesiod

    10 great quotes by hesiod

    • That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
    • But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
    • A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it.
    • For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
    • No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
    • Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It’s your barn she’s after.
    • Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.
    • Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil.
    • Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;
    • The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
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  • 10 inspiring quotes by euripides

    10 inspiring quotes by euripides

    10 inspiring quotes by euripides

    • IAnger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
    • Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
    • The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
    • When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
    • Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
    • When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
    • In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.
    • I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
    • Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive.
    • Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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  • 10 notable jean cocteau quotes

    10 notable jean cocteau quotes

    10 notable jean cocteau quotes

    • I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
    • Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
    • Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
    • What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
    • If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
    • We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
    • The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
    • An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.
    • Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
    • I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
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  • 10 notable quotes by alexander pope

    10 notable quotes by alexander pope

    10 notable quotes by alexander pope

    • Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    • How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
    • A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    • A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
    • If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
    • Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
    • Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    • You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
    • Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
    • Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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