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“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Life, God, Way

“Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.”

Meredith Ann Pierce book The Darkangel

Source: The Darkangel

Smile, Dogs

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

God

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon

Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”

Booth Tarkington book The Magnificent Ambersons

Source: The Magnificent Ambersons

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Imagination, Study

“I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Role Models

Hate, Fear, Imagination, Evil

“Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?

Where does the rainbow end,
in your soul or on the horizon?”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: The Book of Questions

Soul

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Personality

“He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”

Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993) American journalist

Business, Support, Success

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

A Call to Order (1926)

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

People, Lie, Memory

“Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Birth

“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Reading

“Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

History

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

Nature, Personality

“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

Men, God, Truth

“The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

Feeling, Exercises

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

World, Despair

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Thinking, Heart

“The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Time

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

Georgette Heyer book Venetia

Source: Venetia

Love

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Soul

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come form being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Source: Can Man Live Without God

Pain, Pleasure

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

People, Food, Tree

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Thinking, Personality

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Children, Law, Fight

“I’m a hick,” I recall saying to him. “No,” Harrison answered. “You think you’re less than you are. You’re a smart hick.” And then, “You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Thinking

“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Thinking, Memory

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer

“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Life, Kiss

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”

Vikas Swarup (1961) Indian novelist and diplomat

Source: Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire

World, Forgetting

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

“Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.”

Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife

Source: The Subtle Knife

Hurt

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Relentless (1992)

People, Smile

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Evil

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

People

“A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Life

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Fear, Music, Feeling

“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Support

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

Rolf Potts (1970) American writer

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Travel, Home, Country

“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”

Terry Goodkind book Temple of the Winds

Source: Temple of the Winds

Failure

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990)

History, Beer, Question

“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Fear, Light, Joy

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

Erich Fromm The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

People

“Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht.
"Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Sense

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Feeling

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.”

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After

Feeling

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Life

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Memory, Loss, Time

“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

Heart

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Truth

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Hope, Imagination

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Intelligence

“Heritage does not equal destiny.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: The Calling

“Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you."
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Way, Thinking, Hurt

“The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Source: The Lorax

Way, Tree

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

Nature

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

The Humans

Indifference

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Aaron Allston (1960–2014) American writer

Hate

“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Ever

God, Shoe

“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Love, Sense, Effort, Personality

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

Life, Art

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Fate

Source: Fool's Fate

Life, Personality

“It passes, but it does not pass away.”

László Krasznahorkai (1954) Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Stupidity

“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Mayakovsky, st. 4, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957).

Beauty, Thinking, Laughter, Tree

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Variant: If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

God

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Change

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

Trina Paulus Hope for the Flowers

Variant: How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Source: Hope for the Flowers

Flying

“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming