Quotes about going
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“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it"

"I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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Ernesto Che Guevara photo

“I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

These reportedly, were his last words, to Sergeant Jaime Terán, who in different accounts had either volunteered to be his executioner, or by most accounts, had been selected by lot (9 October 1967). Because of the many different reports that have arisen, much confusion and uncertainty exists about his actual last words. His last words to Colonel Arnaldo Saucedo Parada, head of intelligence of the Eighth Division who delivered the official report on Che's final moments were reported as: "I knew you were going to shoot me; I should never have been taken alive. Tell Fidel that this failure does not mean the end of the revolution, that it will triumph elsewhere. Tell Aleida to forget this, remarry and be happy, and keep the children studying. Ask the soldiers to aim well."
Variant translations:
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
Capture and Death (1967)

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“If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”

Variant: If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.
Source: The Beach

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki photo
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“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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Janet Evanovich photo
James Patterson photo
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David Levithan photo
Graham Greene photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Ray Bradbury photo
Cinda Williams Chima photo

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

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“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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Paulo Coelho photo
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Khaled Hosseini photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
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Cassandra Clare photo
Mary E. Pearson photo

“I suppose if we’re going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Donna Tartt photo

“The world won't come to me… so I must go to it.”

Source: The Goldfinch

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“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

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“My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”

Barbara Sher (1935) American writer

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

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“Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
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“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

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