The Quote Bucket

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.

There's always some further action to take.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance.

Fiction is the truth inside a lie.

Some of the most magnificent sanity sounds illogical at first.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.