ZizzFeed Quotes

"This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot."

N.K. Jemisin

Inspiration

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

"We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others."

Anonymous

"Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?"

Hannah More

"Always be straight with flexibility and positive; it is medicine for two, first for your in health and second your wounded enemy."

Khalid Tareen

"The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task."

Fabiola Gianotti

"But I cant' translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many foreign languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way."

DarknessAndLight

"Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one."

Michael Montoure

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor."

J. K. Galbraith

Inspiration

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.

Author

Inspiration

Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.

Anthony T. Hincks

Inspiration

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Author

Inspiration

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.

Author

"I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves."

Unknown

"What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."

Unknown

"Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength."

Philip Roth

"Who can count the sand by the sea?"

Anonymous

Inspiration

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

Author

"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."

Unknown

"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."

Lillie Langtry

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