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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-06-2024
“Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.”
Emilia Clarke
“To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-06-2024
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite
“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.”
Barbara Kingsolver
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-06-2024
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J R R Tolkien
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
J R R Tolkien
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 18-06-2024
Top 40 A.C. Grayling Quotes (2024 Update)
https://quotefancy.com/a-c-grayling-quotes
This guy was in my Secondary School classes for a while, he was noticeably smarter than the rest of the schoolmates then and it looks as if that trend has continued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Grayling
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-06-2024
Love some of those quotes, he must be an interesting character.
“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
J R R Tolkien
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
J R R Tolkien
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-06-2024
“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.”
J R R Tolkien
“A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.”
Roald Dahl
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-06-2024
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
Roald Dahl
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-06-2024
"It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
Roald Dahl
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”
Roald Dahl
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-06-2024
“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.”
Barbara Kingsolver
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H.G.Wells
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-06-2024
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
H.G.Wells
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
H.G.Wells
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-06-2024
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. “
Robert Louis Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-06-2024
"The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
Jack London
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-06-2024
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
Jack London
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-06-2024
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
Jack London
It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. Henry
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-06-2024
No friendship is an accident.
O. Henry
We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. Henry
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-06-2024
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
O. Henry
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
Ray Bradbury
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-07-2024
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
Ray Bradbury
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Kurt Vonnegut
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-07-2024
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
Kurt Vonnegut
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-07-2024
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-07-2024
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut