I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that’s what life is like. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect.
– from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
Category: Quotes
Life is like an extremely difficult …
Life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.
– from Ready Player Two book by Ernest Cline
Truth, like a diamond, has many …
Truth, like a diamond, has many facets.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Our history has always been the …
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.
– from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
Over the years, I’d gradually come …
Over the years, I’d gradually come to believe that family is like your shadow on a sunny day, always there, just over your shoulder, following you in spirit no matter where you are or what you’re doing. They’re always with you.
– from The Return book by Nicholas Sparks
Love. It was the beginning and …
Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
– from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
A society cannot run as it …
A society cannot run as it should unless people with excellent legal minds make it their business to make it run.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
I am extremely serious about the …
I am extremely serious about the value of hard work. I believe it creates not only success but happiness, too. You can never feel satisfied if you’re not applying yourself to something you’re passionate about.
– from Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter book by Curtis Jackson
Stop thinking about what your money …
Stop thinking about what your money can buy. Start thinking about what your money can earn. And then think about what the money it earns can earn. Once you begin to do this, you’ll start to see that when you spend money, not only is that money gone forever, the money it might have earned is gone as well. And so on.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
America is run from the bottom …
America is run from the bottom up and optimized for the individual; China is run from the top down and optimized for the collective.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio