Lines from famous books you need to know

Famous books are famous for a reason - because of their great lines. Here are some of the finest lines from the finest books, curated by the Greatess review team.

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon that his father took him to discover ice.” —One Hundred Years of Solitude

“What fresh hell is this?” —Jane Eyre

“Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.” —MaddAddam

“Always.” —Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Everything’s profound when there’s guns and zombies.” —Sandman Slim

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.” —The Bell Jar

“For one last time, Miriam does as she is told.” —A Thousand Splendid Suns

“And that’s all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. Until we—each of us, individually—decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.” —A Lesson Before Dying

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” —The Fault in Our Stars

“‘Nobody run off with her,’ Roscoe said. ‘She just run off with herself, I guess.'” —Lonesome Dove

“At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business.” —The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive.” —Animal Dreams

“He was dancing, dancing. He says he’ll never die.” —Blood Meridian

“We’re all damaged, somehow.” —A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He’s more myself than I am.” —Wuthering Heights

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” —The Princess Bride

“You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?” —The Glass Menagerie

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Wonderful words to explain time

Time is a mystery that cannot be touched and these wonderful words epitomize exactly what it is, curated by the Greatess review team.

“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.”

Stephen W. Hawking

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”

Rick Warren

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”

Lao Tzu

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

M. Scott Peck

“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”

Mitch Albom

“Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

Erich Fromm

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

Eckhart Tolle

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now.”

George Harrison

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”

William Penn

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

David Norris

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Heraclitus

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The Best American Movies of All Time

Looking to sit down with a good movie to take your mind off things? Then choose one of these great American films, selected by the Greatess review team, and get your popcorn popping!

Roman Holiday by William Wyler

It's a fairy tale about a commoner who falls in love with a princess, but the commoner is a newspaper reporter played by Gregory Peck and the princess is Audrey Hepburn, who has never been lovelier.

The Lady Eve by Preston Sturges

Barbara Stanwyck is at the top of her considerable game as the worldly card sharp who sets out to scam poor befuddled millionaire Henry Fonda, and winds up falling in love with him.

Meet Me in St. Louis by Vincente Minelli

It's pure froth, but what froth it is. Think about this: "The Trolley Song" is only the third best original song in the show.

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Classic books to enjoy now

If you are looking for a great classic read to enjoy now, why not select one of these curated by the Greatess review team.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

This one’s gotten a lot of attention with the recent announcement that Lee will be releasing a prequel this summer, so even if you’ve read it before, now might be a good time to revisit it. Told through the point of view of the 6 year-old Scout Finch, the story recounts a crisis that rocks her Alabama hometown when the African American Thom Robinson is accused of raping a young white woman. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, is the lawyer appointed to represent Robinson. Alternately humorous and brutally honest, the novel looks critically at social issues of class, race, and sex politics and the sometimes ironic injustice of the American legal system.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

When 11 year-old orphan Anne Shirley goes to live with the middle-aged brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, she discovers that there’s been some mistake and that they had actually wanted to adopt a boy. While this debacle initially drops Anne into a world where she fears being rejected and unloved, you’ll ultimately be rewarded as Anne’s spirited imagination and kind heart win over everyone whose life she touches. This is a heartwarming story of love and friendship and a poignant reminder that sometimes life not working out the way we want it to is actually the best thing that can happen.

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Duro

This novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and black father. When Rachel, her mother, and her younger brother fall nine stories from an apartment building, Rachel is the only survivor, and she’s taken in by her black grandmother in a predominantly white Portland neighborhood. With her brown skin and blue eyes (a white girl’s eyes in a Black girl’s face) Rachel faces the challenge of learning what it means to be biracial in a black-and-white world. Duro offers a masterful novel that interrogates the cultural construction of race in America and challenges us to confront our own prejudices.

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Classic books to take a look at now

If you love the classics then be sure to check out these two great novels from classic authors, curated by the Greatess review team.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A well-known abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a political and puritanical indictment of American slavery. Stowe weaves together the stories of several slaves from the fierce Eliza who will stop at nothing to rescue her son from being sold to the meek, modest Uncle Tom who bears his burden calmly and quietly, serving his masters with the faithful honesty of a man for whom freedom is as much a state of mind as a physical condition. This is a novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the moral obligation to fight for right.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar is a hauntingly realistic novel based on Plath’s own life and tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a talented young woman who gains a summer internship at a large New York magazine and discovers that instead of enjoying the glamorous New York lifestyle, she finds it frightening and disorienting. Lifted from Plath’s own struggle with depression, the Bell Jar is an authentic look into the human psyche and sheds light on the realities of mental illness.

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Beloved Books That Didn’t Age Well

Maybe it's time to trade in a few beloved classics for fresh takes from any of these selected by the Greatess review team.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is read in classrooms all over the country, however, the novel includes a disturbingly prejudiced view of Africa, including a moment when an African person is referred to as “a dog wearing trousers.”

We could do better by reading about Africa from authors who call the continent their home. Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a great place to start. It’s the story of a brave, wealthy warrior named Okonkwo during the late 1800s.

Gone With the Wind

It’s no surprise that a story set in the Civil War–era Confederacy includes some revisionist history. In Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, African American slaves toil happily in the fields, singing and laughing as their owners flit around in pretty dresses and suits.

If you are craving a realistic read about southern women during the Civil War then consider Karen Abbott’s Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War.

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Classic quotes to read whenever!

Feeling in the mood to read some classic quotes to change the pace of your day? Then you will love this list curated by the Greatess review team.

l“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.” – Don Marquis

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

“Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.” – Doug Larson

“To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.” – Doug Larson

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” – Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.” – Drake

“An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.” – Dylan Thomas

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” – E. B. White

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”– Earl Wilson

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” – Edward Abbey

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”– Emo Philips

“How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.” – Emo Philips

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.” – Enid Blyton

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” – Erma Bombeck

“Never have more children than you have car windows.” – Erma Bombeck

“I drink to make other people more interesting.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The best lines from classical literature

Fans of the classics will love this collection curated by the Greatess review team.

“Do you know—I hardly remembered you?”

“Hardly remembered me?”

“I mean: how shall I explain? I—it’s always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Virgil, The Aeneid

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkenness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility, of danger, the secret ugly frightening pulse of war itself, of the death that we all wanted, for each other and for ourselves.

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

I remember that I am invisible and walk softly so as not to awaken the sleeping ones.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

Virgil, The Aeneid

You are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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Famous lines from world-renowned classics

Fans of the classics will love this collection curated by the Greatess review team.

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark. - Jack London, The Call of the Wild

I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined. - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons

Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

I will wear him

In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal—this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life. - George Eliot, Middlemarch

Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds. - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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The Best Authors for Kids

These authors all come highly recommended by the Greatess review team. Grab these books for your young readers today and enjoy them together.

Sherman Alexie's humorous, semiautobiographical novel, illustrated by Ellen Forney, follows 14-year-old Junior — poor, skinny and with a freakishly big head — as he leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation for a mostly white school in a nearby town. Alexie captures the pain and awkwardness of adolescence while also meditating on the devastation that poverty, racism and alcoholism have wreaked on Native American communities.

Soman Chainani wrote his graduate thesis on why evil women make irresistible fairy-tale villains. His first novel, The School for Good and Evil, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List and is currently being adapted into a Universal Pictures film.

Linda Sue Park is the author of many books for young readers, including A Single Shard, winner of the 2002 Newbery Medal, and two books in "The 39 Clues" series. Her most recent novel is the New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water.

Margi Preus writes books for young people, including the novels Shadow on the Mountain and Heart of a Samurai, a 2011 Newbery Honor book featured by NPR's Backseat Book Club. Margi also writes plays, hikes, skis, paddles, or sits quietly with a book in her lap.

Rita Williams-Garcia is an award-winning writer of books for young readers and is known for her realistic portrayal of teens of color. Her books include Jumped, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, and One Crazy Summer, which won the Coretta Scott King award in 2011.

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Classics That 8- to 12-Year-Olds Say Are Worth Reading Today

These books all come highly recommended by the Greatess review team. Grab them for your young readers today.

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

You know the story — a mischievous boy who never wants to grow up has adventures with pirates, fairies, lost boys, and the Darling family.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg,

Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from their suburban home in Connecticut to New York City to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They become obsessed with solving an art history mystery and being part of an even bigger adventure than they expected.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

This book provides an even more complex look at Dorothy’s journey to find home and the friends she meets along the way.

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson survives a shipwreck and finds themselves stranded on a tropical island with nothing but their ship of supplies, survival skills, and sense of humor. Adventures abound for this family as they deal with the dangers of island life.

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

This 1945 Newbery Honor book shares Wanda’s story. This girl wears the same faded dress every day but tells everyone she has a hundred dresses at home.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Even though it is a long book, it is full of action, mutiny, adventure, and loot. This fast-paced story also reveals profound lessons about the human spirit through legendary characters like Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.

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Old Teen and Kids' Songs That Spark Nostalgia

Ever thought of the old child songs that made you grow into successful adults? These songs help kids' bodies and minds to work together. It’s high time you shake up the playlist a little bit. Here are some of the kids' songs that are important in your child's development.

The Break-taking Jazzy Ash with “Be Outside”

In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic that subjected many kids to a controlled movement, Jazzy Ash's “Be Outside” song made it look cool to wear a mask.  Kids love this song because it helps them develop social skills. They learn how to relate with other people and work in a team. Additionally, this song gives kids the confidence boost they need to face challenges.

The More Classical 'What’s Up' by 4 Non-Blondes

I believe all parents remember this 90’s hit song with the old flannel-wearing that was the vogue. It’s amazing how kids from any generation can sing and dance along to the tunes of 4 Non-Blondes. You will find yourself shouting the usual “Hey- yeah-Hey- yeah” like those days.

I am Scatman (Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) by Scatman John

If you want your kid to have a fun time, then you should play this song. You will probably get stuck to the tune the whole day. The song is a blend of rap, jazz scatting, and house beats. The song was number-one in different countries and won an Echo Award in Germany.

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Reminiscence About the Good Old Classic Audiobooks

Many people connect with good old classics that were perfectly organized to provide the best informative stories. It’s nostalgic to have a reminiscence of accounts that you have always missed in the past. Here are some old classic audiobooks from talented narrators and are written by some of the best authors in the world.

Ralph Ellison's Obstacles In The Invisible Man

This audiobook tells an engaging story about a black man who strives hard to make a living in a predominantly white world. It’s so profound and elaborate. The author wrote about emerging black identity, black-nationalism, and Marxism issues. Ellison’s story is painfully relevant. It’s narrated by Joe Morton to relate to the current state of American race relations.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It suffices to say that modern American literature finds its roots in the works of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is narrated well by Elijah Wood and was released on November 09, 2010. The Raucous boyhood story is a must-listen for those who love classic adventure audiobooks.

Mary Shelley's The Strange & Twisted Life of Frankenstein

A better part of the story is presented from a protagonist's point of view, with Frankenstein recounting the events that led to creating a monster. This groundbreaking audiobook has suspense. Dan Stevens did a great job to ensure the story will increase your adrenaline.

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Dead Poets Society Quotes to Make You Think Differently

Gain a new perspective on life through these Dead Poets Society quotes.

1. “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” – Dead Poets Society

2. “O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain my Captain.” – Dead Poets Society

3. “College will probably destroy your love for poetry. Hours of boring analysis, dissection, and criticism will see to that. College will also expose you to all manner of literature—much of it transcendent works of magic that you must devour; some of it utter dreck that you must avoid like the plague.” – Dead Poets Society

4. “Carpe, carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” – Dead Poets Society

5. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Dead Poets Society

6. “Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, ‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!” – Dead Poets Society

7. “Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.” – Dead Poets Society

8. “They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? – – Carpe – – hear it?” – Dead Poets Society

9. “There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” – Dead Poets Society

10. “I always thought education was learning to think for yourself.” – Dead Poets Society

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Quotes on the definition of perfect timing

We all know the importance of not wasting time, but what about perfect timing? Here are some quotes on what perfect timing really means.

1. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

2. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

3. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash

4. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden

5. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” – Eckhart Tolle

6. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.” — Israelmore Ayivor

8. “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.” — Mike Dunlap

9. “You ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people” — John Hughes, The Breakfast Club

10. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee

11. “You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

12. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

13. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

14. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin

15. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”— Dale Carnegie

16. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”— Harvey MacKay

17. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.” — Sir John Lubbock

19. “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes” ― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope

20. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ― Earl Nightingale

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Memorable quotes fom classic books

Here are some of the most memorable quotes from classic literature.

Snow Falling On Cedars

Author: David Guterson

Year: 1994

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

In A Free State

Author: V.S. Naipaul

Year: 1971

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

Author: Mark Haddon

Year: 2003

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville

Year: 1851

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons)

Author: Stephen King

Year: 1982

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

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Inspiring Shakespeare quotes

Fans of Shakespeare will love these inspirational quotes which teach lessons on stealing, honesty and wisdom.

William Shakespeare Says Steal Something Back

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. – William Shakespeare Those that rob you of things, be they material items, love or kindness, expect chaos to consume you; they expect you to be upset and they don’t often care. Though if you are robbed of anything, smile and go about your life as normally as you can. This way you are not letting the thief steal your happiness as well.

William Shakespeare on Honesty

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare

The best legacy to leave your children and your family is one of living an honest life. This means being truthful with your feelings and being truthful with your facts. Living transparently and honestly is one of the most rewarding things you can teach others by example.

William Shakespeare on Wisdom and Fools

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

Foolish people think they know everything, but those who know a lot know that they could always learn more. This quote may help put into perspective that humility is a good trait to have no matter how successful or smart you might be.

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