Quotes - C.R. Comacchio (cyncom) (Guelph, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 50

#1

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5165 likes

#2

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

2114 likes

#3

“The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.”
― Charles Bowen

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#4

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3357 likes

#5

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

2322 likes

#6

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

2299 likes

#7

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39237 likes

#8

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

tags: stories

2846 likes

#9

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2708 likes

#10

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2959 likes

#11

“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
― Joseph Pulitzer

tags: crime, secrecy, transparency, vice

990 likes

#12

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3201 likes

#13

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4664 likes

#14

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

2112 likes

#15

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3585 likes

#16

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

1551 likes

#17

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2052 likes

#18

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16102 likes

#19

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

2194 likes

#20

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

2630 likes

#21

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

1984 likes

#22

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

9929 likes

#23

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2896 likes

#24

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: united-states

1025 likes

#25

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1692 likes

#26

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

3324 likes

#27

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6198 likes

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