“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain.”
― Daphne du Maurier, quote from Frenchman's Creek
“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Devil in Winter
“Some fish were jumping up the beach and into the tree, which struck me as an odd thing for a fish to do, but I tried not to be judgmental about it. I was feeling pretty raw about my own species, and not much inclined to raise a quizzical eyebrow at others. The fish could play about in trees as much as they liked if it gave them pleasure, so long as they didn't try and justify themselves or tell each other it was a malign god who made them play in trees.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Last Chance to See
“You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle, quote from The Nicomachean Ethics
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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