“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Variant: Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Source: The Princess Bride
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
Variant: Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Nelson Mandela on equaliy, From a letter to General Du Preez, Commissioner of Prisons, Written on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa (12 July 1976). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes <br class="br">1970s
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 70
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”
Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Everything is on loan in life—everything.”
Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 239.
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911) American writer
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and …
“If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist