Words worth keeping
2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
All thinking men are atheists.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!
Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before."Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.