Octavio Paz quote: "Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were moldi...
HENRY MILLER

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal ...
CHARLES DICKENS

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I ...
NICKI MINAJ

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because th...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or a...
JUDITH VIORST

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was m...
ROBERT REICH

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

They kind of knew us almost by our first names. We were a little deeper. They had two (forward) line...
MIKE ROUTHIER

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', s...
DOUGLAS MURRAY

Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS

I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS

There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS

I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS

No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS

He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS

I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS

Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR

Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they sur...
JIMMY CARTER

...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were bef...
DAVID LEVITHAN

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM

I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like littl...
OLGA KURYLENKO

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON

We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

I think they definitely had the energy this game. We were definitely a little flat and they were def...
BLAKE TRAVIS

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judgi...
TINA YOTHERS

Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who w...
CLARENCE THOMAS

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me bac...
DAN O'BRIEN

When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators? / Or did they create th...
QURAN

The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY

He's gawking at me when I open the door.
"Damn girl," he says, looking me over, "what the hell...
J.A. REDMERSKI

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ...
REBECCA HARRIS

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

I did have a few parents who were a little mad when I told their children to not stick their fingers...
SARA WHITE

One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS...

'21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they...
BROOKE ASTOR

I applied for the job. They had three stores and they were shocked! They said that I was a little ov...
CLIVE CUSSLER

This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it make...
HENRY MILLER

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO

You're a throwback."
"To what?"
Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxic...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Octavio Paz

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