“You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 260
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), Ch. 45
Context: I cannot tell you how thankful I am for your reminding me about the apocrypha here. For the moment, its being such escaped me. Fact is, when all is bound up together, it's sometimes confusing. The uncanonical part should be bound distinct. And, now that I think of it, how well did those learned doctors who rejected for us this whole book of Sirach. I never read anything so calculated to destroy man's confidence in man. This son of Sirach even says — I saw it but just now: 'Take heed of thy friends'; not, observe, thy seeming friends, thy hypocritical friends, thy false friends, but thy friends, thy real friends — that is to say, not the truest friend in the world is to be implicitly trusted. Can Rochefoucault equal that? I should not wonder if his view of human nature, like Machiavelli's, was taken from this Son of Sirach. And to call it wisdom — the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach! Wisdom, indeed! What an ugly thing wisdom must be! Give me the folly that dimples the cheek, say I, rather than the wisdom that curdles the blood. But no, no; it ain't wisdom; it's apocrypha, as you say, sir. For how can that be trustworthy that teaches distrust?
John Derbyshire book Prime Obsession
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003)
Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) American politician, 17th president of the United States (in office from 1865 to 1869)
First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"The Loudest Voice" (1959)
“I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.”
George Carlin book Brain Droppings
Source: Brain Droppings
Ellen Page (1987) Canadian actress
Coming Out Speech (2014)
Context: There are too many kids out there suffering from bullying, rejection, or simply being mistreated because of who they are. Too many dropouts. Too much abuse. Too many homeless. Too many suicides. You can change that and you are changing it. But you never needed me to tell you that. That’s why this was a little bit weird. The only thing I can really say is what I’ve been building up to for the past five minutes. Thank you. Thank for inspiring me. Thank you for giving me hope, and please keep changing the world for people like me. Happy Valentine’s Day. I love you.