Quotes about going
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“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue

Life, People, Time

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."

(Interview,, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Feeling, Winter, Speed

“Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for."
I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now”

Jack Kerouac book Visions of Cody

girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Visions of Cody (1960)

Tear, Cry

“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for… but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Parting

“Nick, space. Now. (Acheron)
Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Boy, Loss

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Thinking

“Let go, and let God.”

Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

God

“Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?”

Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember

Source: The City of Ember

“You don't smoke do you?"
"No, why?"
"They're afraid of fire."
"Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes."
I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Love

“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't… My dear, I don't give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

People

“But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Heart

“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games

Change

“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Love

“… Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”

Elizabeth von Arnim book The Enchanted April

Source: The Enchanted April

Happiness

“Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Cry

“Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host

People, Books

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

People

“You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Smile, Thinking

“So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Evil, Fight

“feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just
to be life going absolutely perfectly”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, Feeling

“You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Question, Waiting, Parting

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Way

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

David Markson (1927–2010) American writer

Sex, Learning, Reading

“You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'

'The mule and I have an agreement.'

'The mule and you have similar traits.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Learning, Horse

“You’re like your,” he whispered. “You make the world go away for me”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Father Mine

World

“You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you."
"Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Dreams, Sleep, Night

“Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.

Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

“And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.”

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) American poet

Death, Truth, Fear, Cry

“The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Star, Forgetting

“I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born."

'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

Family

“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Rand al'Thor
Source: A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“…when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Savannah Lynn Curtis, Chapter 4, p. 71
Variant: ... when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

People, Personality