127 Quote Quotes

Sept. 1, 2024, 12:45 a.m.

127 Quote Quotes

Finding the right words to express your emotions, motivations, or thoughts can sometimes be a challenge. Quotes can bridge that gap, distilling profound wisdom, humor, and insight into bite-sized pieces that resonate with our experiences. Whether you're searching for inspiration, motivation, or a touch of fun, our carefully curated collection of the top 127 quotes promises to deliver. Dive in and let these words of wisdom guide you, uplift you, and perhaps even astonish you with their timeless relevance.

1. “There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they” - Anna Sewell

2. “Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.” - Lester B. Pearson

3. “Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s'i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht, i shqetesojne, i bezdisin me ankesat pa fund. Po, moj shpirt, varferia kurdohere e bezdisshme eshte. Ja ç'eshte, Varenjka. Renkimet e te uriturve, klithmat e zemerplasurve u prishin gjumin ca zoterinjve.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

4. “E ke vene re, Seriozha? Sikur qesh me ty duket, kurse ne te vertete nuk te qesh, te do...” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

5. “This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” - Douglas MacArthur

6. “Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!” - Catherine Hapka

7. “He who does not know how to believe, should not know.” - Antonio Porchia

8. “I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)” - Storm Constantine

9. “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” - Paul Rand

10. “Always stand up for what you believe in…even if it means standing alone.” - Kim Hanks

11. “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings” - Samuel Johnson

12. “Just remember, we're all in this alone.” - Lily Tomlin

13. “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” - Karl Lagerfeld

14. “I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.” - Karl Lagerfeld

15. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

16. “Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.” - Karl Lagerfeld

17. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” - Karl Lagerfeld

18. “To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.” - Charlotte Brontë

19. “Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.” - Jim Butcher

20. “How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'(Virgil Daly)” - Christina Westover

21. “There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.” - Jared Matthew Kessler

22. “At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.” - Ana Monnar

23. “Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.” - Ana Monnar

24. “Life Is, a Rose.” - Ana Monnar

25. “Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?” - Ana Monnar

26. “Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.” - Ana Monnar

27. “Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

28. “Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.” - Roman Payne

29. “Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.” - Karl Lagerfeld

30. “Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.” - Deepak Chopra

31. “Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I said. “I just didn’t know people still used that term.” “Well, I’m a people, Burke. Am I not?” “Of course.” “If you prick me, do I not bleed, you scat-gobbling, mother-rimming prick?” Occasionally Dean Cooley reverted to a vocabulary more suited to his marine years, but some maintained it was only when he felt threatened, or stretched for time. “Yes, sir,” I said.” - Sam Lipsyte

32. “Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for handouts. Who’s going to take care of me?” “I’m on my knees here, Mom. Not for me, for my family. For my wife. For a beautiful grandson you have totally ignored.” “He’s kind of a brat. I’ll be in his life when he gets a little impulse control.” “He’s not even four.” “I have needs. I’m tired of this child-worshipping culture. You’re just a slave to it, Milo.” “I’m only trying to be a decent dad.” “Don’t waste your time. It’s not in your genes. Besides, try making some money. That might be a good dad move. For heaven’s sake, the system’s rigged for white men and you still can’t tap in.” “You’re right, Mom. What can I say? But still, it would mean a lot to me if you made a little more of an effort with Bernie.” “Bernie schmernie. This is my decade.” “Okay, you wrinkled old spidercunt, have it your way.” - Sam Lipsyte

33. “We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.” - Sam Lipsyte

34. “Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.” - Deepak Chopra

35. “Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.” - Deepak Chopra

36. “I know a lie when I hear one.” - Adrian Mitchel

37. “I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...” - Yana Toboso

38. “Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.” - Taylor Swift

39. “There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life – and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.” - Taylor Swift

40. “At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.” - Taylor Swift

41. “It's a blip, not a catastrophe.” - Donald Trump

42. “Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.” - Jane Austen

43. “Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.” - Doreen Virtue

44. “Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.” - Karl Lagerfield

45. “Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.” - Lee Argus

46. “I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.” - Lisa Ann Sandell

47. “Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

48. “I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

49. “A lie never grows old.” - Sophocles

50. “...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder” - Elizabeth Funderbirk

51. “Accursed be he that first invented war.” - Christopher Marlowe

52. “Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.” - Suzanne Collins

53. “Ada saatnya kita harus merasakan sakit karena dikecewakan. Tapi percayalah, akan datang bahagia berlipat sebagai gantinya.” - Irin Sintriana

54. “If you want romance, fuck a journalist.” - W.H. Auden

55. “People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.” - Vanna Bonta

56. “The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.” - Vanna Bonta

57. “Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.” - James Sallis

58. “I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat."No, Katniss! No! You can't go!"But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does.” - Suzanne Collins

59. “I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.” - Suzanne Collins

60. “Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.” - Gayle Forman

61. “eat whatever you meet along the way.If you come late don't eat but wack yours with hers.” - christian Thogolith

62. “You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.” - Strickland Gillian

63. “Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?"----------------------------------------"No. Sorry.""Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?""I'm sorry. I can't do it."----------------------------------------"You're busy?""I just can't do it," I said.” - Elizabeth Chandler

64. “The best promises forever seem to be made by amnesiacs.” - Chris Gould

65. “Melupakan berarti berusaha menghapus kenangan, sedangkan merelakan berarti belajar melepaskan.” - Irin Sintriana

66. “Aku ingin melihatmu tertawa dan bahagia karenaku.” - Irin Sintriana

67. “Love is the poetry of the senses!” - Honoré de Balzac

68. “If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don’t see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I’m very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself.” - Jonathan Franzen

69. “To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

70. “You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.” - Logan Henderson

71. “We'd do anything our our fans” - Logan Henderson

72. “Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.” - Kendall Schmidt

73. “The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.-The Vangeretta Curse” - Christina Mobley

74. “Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need” - Hui Hai

75. “They want to control humankind through what they call selective breeding. The Nazis started it, but now the nwo are continuing it. See, the only way to control population is to first get it back down to manageable size. They're culling the herd, same way the game commission does when deer population gets out of control. That's why we've got diseases like cancer and aids. You telling me that we can put a little goddamn skateboard-looking robot on Mars and have it send pictures back, but we can't find a cure for cancer? There's a cure. You can bet on that, boys. There's a goddamn cure. They just won't release it because cancer helps cut down the population.” - Brian Keene

76. “Tine-ma aici cat vrei,si cand nu ma mai vrei,spune-mi sa ma duc” - Radu Tudoran

77. “Who will guard us against the guardians?” - Susan Ee

78. “That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully.” - Terry Pratchett

79. “CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...” - DeOLs

80. “Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.” - Ally Condie

81. “Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.” - Deb Caletti

82. “If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence” - Paulo Coelho

83. “Menulislah karena kamu menyukainya. Dengan begitu, kamu akan memulai dan menyelesaikannya.” - Irin Sintriana

84. “Dan akan ia lakukan apapun untuk membuat wanita itu tetap tersenyum. Karena ia mengenal bahagia saat melihat wanita itu tertawa.” - Irin Sintriana

85. “Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!” - Mayor A. Lan

86. “Life can be hard in the real world.” - Jenny B. Jones

87. “La gandeza de un libro, es el mejor invento para abrir ventanas a otras vidas, a otras miradas, a otras historias que cambian la nuestra. Un libro es útil, está cargado de pasión y algunas noches le damos permiso para fluir hasta doblegarnos” - M.M.

88. “A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin” - Benny Bellamacina

89. “An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.” - Francisca Olivia

90. “I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia” - George Orwell

91. “If you want to know the truth,” he says, leaning forward like he’s getting ready to tell a really good story, “it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.”And that’s when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.” - Lauren Barnholdt

92. “Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.” - P.C. Zick

93. “If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead” - Benny Bellamacina

94. “That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

95. “Seandainya saja takdir mempertemukan kita kembali, izinkan aku memelukmu walau hanya sekali, izinkan aku untuk mengakui bahwa aku mencintaimu.” - Irin Sintriana

96. “Percayalah bahwa aku mencintaimu di setiap detik waktuku. Sepanjang sisa umurku.” - Irin Sintriana

97. “Buku itu akan abadi, bersama dengan pesan yang disampaikan di dalamnya. Jadi semestinya, meskipun ragaku ini tidak akan abadi, aku bisa menulis untuk mengabadikan perasaanku padanya, bukan?” - Irin Sintriana

98. “Waktu, membuatku tahu. Bahwa ada hal-hal yang terkadang abadi bersamanya. Berjalan beriringan, tanpa dapat ditinggalkan.” - Irin Sintriana

99. “I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.” - Michelle M. Pillow

100. “t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.” - Paul Hoffman

101. “This time he was underwater, running, feet sinking deeper and deeper into the seabed. The surface was within reach if he raised his arms, but he couldn’t get his head out of the water. He had to breathe. The compulsion to inhale was huge. But he couldn’t, musn’t. Still he ran, getting nowhere, each frantic step burying his feet in the wet sand until he was no longer able to lift them. Finally, with one great gulp, he opened his mouth, his lungs to the flood of seawater.” - Flip by Martyn Bedford

102. “VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, carting off nearly fifty thousand documents. One of the files was titled “Operation Freakout.” It concerned the treatment of Paulette Cooper, the journalist who had published an exposé of Scientology, The Scandal of Scientology, six years earlier. After having been indicted for perjury and making bomb threats against Scientology, Cooper had gone into a deep depression. She stopped eating. At one point, she weighed just eighty-three pounds. She considered suicide. Finally, she persuaded a doctor to give her sodium pentothal, or “truth serum,” and question her under the anesthesia. The government was sufficiently impressed that the prosecutor dropped the case against her, but her reputation was ruined, she was broke, and her health was uncertain. The day after the FBI raid on the Scientology headquarters, Cooper was flying back from Africa, on assignment for a travel magazine, when she read a story in the International Herald Tribune about the raid. One of the files the federal agents discovered was titled “Operation Freakout.” The goal of the operation was to get Cooper “incarcerated in a mental institution or jail.” - Lawrence Wright

103. “Always tell yourself that you are as good as anyone that breathes; that you have two hands and a brain, and a little time in which to use them. But they are enough, and no one has any more. And if you train and force them to serve you well, you can reach any height to which you aspire. But to waste any of them is to betray yourself.” - Robert Stroud

104. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.” - Paul Hoffman

105. “You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes” - Elizabeth E. Castillo

106. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

107. “We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.” - Anna Banks

108. “Preserve your own mystery. We live in an age of social media and what seems like extreme sharing of personal details. I would beg to differ that these revelations are not honest truths but more self-branding. Whatever the case, save a little bit, or a lot, for yourself. If you run around naked all the time, when the storm hits, you’ll have no raincoat.” - Susan Kirschbaum

109. “Because I know what I feel in here. And I'm not the type of person to run from anything, no matter how hard it is. I'd rather face-plant against a brick wall than live for the rest of my life wondering what could've been. And you know what? I didn't think you were that type to run, either. Maybe I was wrong.” - Jennifer Armentrout

110. “Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.” - Orlando A. Battista

111. “Have you ever given yourself to a kiss so completely, that you felt like you surrendered some of yourself and replaced it with a part of them?” - Ali Harris

112. “I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.” - John Green

113. “Creativity and expression of one’s art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for.  Not everyone is going to like my “art” and I don’t really care about that.” - Anne-Rae Vasquez

114. “Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

115. “What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

116. “To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

117. “You will experience a lot of imaginings as usually is for humans although we tend to pretend that all our thoughts are septic and moral. Feelcomfortable with your thoughts. Trust me dear child, no human is spared from wild thoughts and you too will have them. Nothing should limit you my child. But the minute you decide to speak out your thinking or live them, you should be ready for the consequences too.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

118. “May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

119. “Have you ever entered a kitchen to find a woman, her legs crossed while the rest of her body is dressed in colourful khanga, smiling at you while her hands are making a melodious song with a coconut grater? Have you ever wondered how any woman size can fit on that grater regardless of their body size? The time for wondering is over. East Africa heartily welcomes you to see for yourself. Go and visit it.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

120. “The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

121. “I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

122. “Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling water.Right now in this world, a girl is striving to find firewood from trees that no more exist, and water from sources that are poisonous.Right now in this world, a boy is out fishing in a lake rich with inedible species.Right now in this world, a mother is drowning in heavy rainfall, to save her belongings.Right now in this world, a man has lost his dignity because all his eff orts to save have been wiped away to poverty by unforeseen calamities.Right now in this world, a family is starving because drought has invaded their once fertile land.Right now in this world, a nation is planning for refugee status due to adverse climate conditions.Right now in this world, you have a choice to help alleviate environmental problems caused by humankind.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves

123. “Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.” - Iyanla Vanzant

124. “They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.” - Saskia Walker

125. “I would live forever if I could, but not like this.” - Gary Young

126. “Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they’re around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they’re gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you’re ignored, and then you write to them again and you’re ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they’re so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel?” - Cecelia Ahern

127. “I won't give up on us” - Jason Mraz