You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

-- John Green, Paper Towns

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

-- Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

-- Rabindranath Tagore, City of Fallen Angels

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

-- Mary Oliver, The Darkest Part of the Forest

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

-- Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.

-- Chelsea M. Cameron, Deeper We Fall

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

-- Archilochos, Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

-- Oscar Wilde, The Long Goodbye

There is power in the word of God if used properly.

-- Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

The real training is building character for a good conduct.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-

-- Compton Gage, The Silence Between the Sighs

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

-- Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

The market doesn´t care about titles.

-- Alin Sav, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

-- Kate Forsyth, The Witches of Eileanan

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein, A Room with a View

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.

-- John Zea, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.

-- Debasish Mridha, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

-- Lauren Oliver, Rooms

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

-- Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament