๐ฌ Quotes
5,292 quotes from great books
"I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!"
โ Nightby Elie Wiesel
"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me."
โ Nightby Elie Wiesel
"The town was a wonderful place. It was full of people and horses and wagons, and there were stores with glass windows and everything anyone could want to buy."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Pa said that a town was a place where people lived close together so they could help each other, but sometimes it felt like there were too many people and not enough room to breathe."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Laura looked at the store windows, her eyes wide with wonder, seeing things she had only ever imagined in her dreams."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Everything in the store had a smellโthe smell of peppermint, the smell of new cloth, and the sharp, clean smell of coffee beans."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"They were going to town, and that meant everything was different; the horses were groomed, the wagon was clean, and even the air seemed to hold a promise of excitement."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"It was time to go home to the little house, where the prairie was wide and quiet, and the stars looked down on them like friendly eyes."
โ Going to Townby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"Iโm going to keep having fun every day I have left, because thereโs no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."
โ The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch
"Legacy is not something you are born with; it is something you must earn, something you must fight to keep alive."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore
"I am Number Four. I am the one who will survive. I am the one who will fight back."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore
"We are the last of our kind. If we fall, everything falls with us. There is no one else to hold the line."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore
"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. You have to decide to be brave even when your heart is screaming at you to run."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore
"They think they have hunted us to the brink of extinction, but they don't realize that in the shadows, we have been growing stronger."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore
"The hardest part about being who we are is that we can never truly have a home, because our home is no longer a place that exists."
โ I Am Number Fourby Pittacus Lore