Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

—Elizabeth Berg in Open House

More about this quote

Tags:
sound radio quiet
Permalink for this quote

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

—Casey Stengel

More about this quote

Tags:
baseball
Permalink for this quote

You know a woman is strong, beautiful, and secure by the way she empowers and inspires others.

—Cara Alwill Leyba in Girl Code

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.

—Elizabeth Berg in Range Of Motion

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

—Winston Churchill

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

—Henrik Tikkanen

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

—Henry Ward Beecher

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn't fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.

—Paula Stokes in The Key to Everything

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

A funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn't it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there's still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

More about this quote

Tags:
death funerals
Permalink for this quote

He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pining after a girl you thought didn't feel the same way about you, and the next, you were lying together, arms entwined, chest to chest, so close you could feel her heartbeat under her soft skin. You were looking into her eyes and seeing your whole future written there.

—Libba Bray in Before the Devil Breaks You

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

It's okay to be impatient. As long as you show your patience on the outside.

—Lisa M. Cronkhite in Disconnected

More about this quote

Tags:
patience
Permalink for this quote

Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

—Monica Murphy in Second Chance Boyfriend

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

—Samuel Pepys

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?

—Elizabeth Berg in Talk Before Sleep

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

—George Carlin

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote