Thoughtful Quotes

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Louis Kahn

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

Nina Guilbeau

SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker.

Margaret Roach

She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

David Mitchell

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.

Jamie McGuire

Who needs a face when the masks in life are endless?

Diliana Ovtcharova

You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Patrick Ness

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Patrick Ness

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

Dalma Heyn

Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.You are the way and the wayfarers.And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

Kahlil Gibran

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

George Eliot

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Kurt Vonnegut

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Oscar Wilde

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying 'hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan.

John Green

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.

Stephen Richards