Lost Quotes
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.
No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.
He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?
I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!
Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
