Most Quotes (page 312)

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• true
• greatness
• lies

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci

• time
• times
• keys

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. Jonathan Lethem

• beard
• saying
• charming

What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears? Plato

• him
• men
• free

He thirsted for this resurrection and renewal. The vile bog he had gotten stuck in of his own free will burdened him too much, and, like a great many men in such cases, he believed most of all in a change of place: if only it weren't for these people, if only it weren't for these circumstances, if only one could fly away from the curses place--then everything would be reborn! That was what he believed in and what he longed for. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• gratitude
• our
• deserved

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick

• animal
• hand
• eyes

Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time. Harper Lee

• death
• wellness
• illness

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them. Laurell K. Hamilton

• men
• witty
• melancholy

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty. Aristotle

• clouds
• lesson
• moving

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson. Ann Beattie

• time
• thinking
• nature

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most. Charles Darwin

• serious
• question
• questionable

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. Milan Kundera

• mistake
• gratuitous
• prophecy

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot

• evening
• linger
• lingers

We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. Rainer Maria Rilke

• motivational
• giving up
• moments

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. W. E. B. Du Bois

• alone
• growing up
• feeling

One of the biggest - and I would guess most common - mistakes parents make is to transfer their own childhood shit onto their kids. Whatever their joys and agonies were growing up, they assume will be exactly the same for their children, and they let it guide their parenting. I can see the same dumb instincts in myself. When I first started hanging out with my old boyfriend's kids, I found it depressing because I would just look at them and think of how miserable they must be, and how totally... Sarah Silverman