My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag.
I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.
— Gary Paulsen
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. — Saint Thomas Aquinas
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick’s wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. ― Salman Rushdie, Fury
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. ― Carol Shields
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. ― E.E. Cummings
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. ― Isaac Asimov
Good news travels fast; bad news travels faster.
We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. — John Naisbitt
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. — Hunter S. Thompson
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done…It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes…have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs…  — Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, “The New Nationalism” (August 31, 1910)
You were once wild, don’t let them tame you — Isadora Duncan
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. — Martin Amis
Thanks to all the friends and inspirations who shared quotes: Anthony, Patrick, Janice, Alina.
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