Quotes by Authors - Page 405

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
George Orwell
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.
Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.
Colleen Hoover
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris for being a thiefFaulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of being humanBurroughs killing his wife with a gunMailer stabbing histhe impossibility of being humanMaupassant going mad in a rowboatDostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shotCrane off the back of a boat into the propellerthe impossibilitySylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potatoHarry Crosby leaping into that Black SunLorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troopsthe impossibilityArtaud sitting on a madhouse benchChatterton drinking rat poisonShakespeare a plagiaristBeethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafnessthe impossibility the impossibilityNietzsche gone totally madthe impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly
Charles Bukowski
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
Jenny Han
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
Neal A Maxwell
Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
Jess C. Scott
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled Hosseini
Does truth have a moral?
Rick Riordan
Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most.
Anthony T.Hincks
I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!
Anthony T.Hincks
I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.
Anthony T.Hincks
I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.
Anthony T.Hincks
YOU ARE JUSTYou are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.
Suzy Kassem
I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.
Suzy Kassem
Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?
Suzy Kassem
Rainbows make great pets,because they're already house trained.
Anthony T.Hincks
I'm not insincere. I just don't care, that's all.
Anthony T.Hincks
On even the darkest of days, the brightest thing in my life is you.
Anthony T.Hincks
A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.
Eraldo Banovac
I wish that I had been born a man, then I wouldn't be the boy that I am.
Anthony T.Hincks
When the shit hits the fan, you really have to ask yourself why you weren't sitting on the toilet.
Anthony T.Hincks
Pink colors my world with love.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said.
Anthony T.Hincks
..."SORRY."...Just doesn't cut it anymore!
Anthony T.Hincks
How do I know that you exist?That's just it. I don't!
Anthony T.Hincks
You never cease to be unique.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind.
Anthony T.Hincks
Your smile carries my heart away every time that I see you.
Anthony T.Hincks
I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.
Anthony T.Hincks
My soul pines for the color in my heart.
Anthony T.Hincks
Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.
Anthony T.Hincks
Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!
Anthony T.Hincks
Animals are what we are and animals are what we'll stay.
Anthony T.Hincks
A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary.
Anthony T.Hincks
I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.
Richard Smyth
When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!
Anthony T.Hincks
Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!
Anthony T.Hincks
The joy of having no friends is that I can do anything I want; when I want.The downside is, that I have no one to share it with.
Anthony T.Hincks
Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination.
Anthony T.Hincks
Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.
Anthony T.Hincks
Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friendship.
Eraldo Banovac
I have a quote for every occasion, then I remembered that I don't have that many occasions.
Anthony T.Hincks
She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the monotony of life.’ Until that moment I’d been completely ignorant of such missionary work. I’d thoughts there was only two types people at least. There was the Orange Girl, and there were the rest of us.
Jostein Gaarder
She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.
Jostein Gaarder
I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.
Jostein Gaarder
The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their descendants. It's just that they find it so hard to breathe in a time other than their own.We don't only have a place in existence. We also have an allotted span.That's the way things are, and all I can do is extrapolate from what's around me now.
Jostein Gaarder
Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
Barry Eisler
The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. That would have been about as daft as standing on tip-toe to get a better picture of the craters on the moon. The whole idea of a space telescope is to study space from a point outside the earth' atmosphere that gives that impression, in roughly the same way the ripping surface of a lake can give the impression that the stones beneath are wavy and indistinct. Or the reverse: from the bottom of a swimming pool it's not easy to see what's happening above the surface.
Jostein Gaarder
When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?
Anthony T.Hincks
You don't need to be in the light to be a beacon of beauty.For Marta
Anthony T.Hincks
A dove carries peace on its wings.
Anthony T.Hincks
Beauty is a female thing. That's why nature is so stunning.
Anthony T.Hincks
Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus
Anthony T.Hincks
Don't be surprised when Death comes knocking. Be surprised when he goes away empty handed.
Anthony T.Hincks
They said that Superman was faster than a speeding train. If that's the case, how fast were his sperm and would Lois survive?It makes you think, doesn't it?
Anthony T.Hincks
There is no such thing a boring content. In the hands of a great teacher...even if as teachers we doubt that we can make it so...this doubt puts us at risk of undercutting it: watering it down or apologizing for teaching it.
Doug Lemov