Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.

  2. The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly.

  3. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

  4. Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

    p. 197

  5. I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.

  6. To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

    p. 400

  7. You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

  8. When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

    p. 26

  9. Christianity and Islam have changed irrevocably the moral reflexes of the world. The philosopher Herakleitos said with profound truth that you cannot step twice into the same river. The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

  10. Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

  11. In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

  12. It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.