Every accepted public quote

“Morals are private. Decency is public.”

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“A child comes to see his father play, have fun, make people happy, and what does he see? He sees people booing his father for being black. They make monkey noises. They throw bananas at his...”

“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”

“I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.”

“Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.”

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

“I'm all about second chances.”

“We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.”

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

“When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all d...”

“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”

“Knowledge begins with the acceptance of ignorance.”

“I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a differe...”

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. The...”

“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to lov...”

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”

“The fights are always the same”

“Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.”

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself...”

“Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've...”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

“Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.”

“Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!”

“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”

“Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple...”

“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”

“We learn a little more about the world each day; this shapes our ideals and, more often than not, ensures these ideals are constantly changing.”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.”

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.”

“Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon instead, build her wings and point her to the sky and she will teach you both to fly.”

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.”

“life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis”

“Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.”

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

“You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.”

“I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.”

“A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.”

“Ada seseorang dalam hidupmu yang ketika ia pergi, maka ia juga membawa sepotong hatimu.”