“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women
Popular quotes page 94
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Variant: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
“Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.”
Raphael (1483–1520) Italian painter and architect
Quote from: 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
“Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
The Guardian, December 9, 1995, p. 2
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1377) Moroccan explorer
Source: The Travels of Ibn Battutah
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Russian composer and pianist
From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player
After scoring four goals against Arsenal, 2011 http://www.taringa.net/posts/deportes/12977787/Grandes-frases-de-y-sobre-Messi.html
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Machiavelli commented on the relative ease of gaining favor from friends and enemies in Chapter 20 of The Prince, quoted above. However, this particular wording comes from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Misattributed
“Like it or not, your existence is grounded in faith.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.