ZizzFeed Quotes

Inspiration

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Author

Inspiration

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Jonathan Galassi

"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title."

Unknown

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."

Tom Schulman

"They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back."

A.A. Milne

Inspiration

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.

Author

"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."

Edmund Burke

Inspiration

I truly believed that a man should not be seen to be out front on feminism. That would be just like a man to try to take over the women's movement. We'd taken over everything else in history, in society, in the world, why not feminism, too? No, I don't think so.

Terry Fallis

Inspiration

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin

Inspiration

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Author

"Always cherish the gift of reading."

Lisa McFarland

Inspiration

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

Montesquieu

Alexander Pope

by fabian

1

"And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything."

Anonymous

"I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart."

Nahoko Uehashi

"Dignity is pride’s barometer."

Unknown

"First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule of thievery, never use the same entrance twice.' Miranda rolled her eyes. 'How many 'first rules' of thievery do you have?' 'When one mistake can mean your head on a pike, every rule's a first rule,' Eli said cheerfully."

Rachel Aaron

ZizzFeed

by fabian

2

"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that."

Unknown

Inspiration

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Author

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