Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

J. K. Rowling

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

J. K. Rowling

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

J. K. Rowling

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

J. K. Rowling

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

J. K. Rowling

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

H. G. Wells

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

H. G. Wells

... life falls into place only with God.

H. G. Wells

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

H. G. Wells

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. L. Mencken

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

H. L. Mencken

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

H. L. Mencken

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Guillaume Apollinaire

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Greg Lake

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

Grace Hopper

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say, "We've always done it that way," my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.

Grace Kelly

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

Jack London

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Jack London

. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

J. Reuben Clark

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be the first to say, "Hello".

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be kinder than necessary.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.