The Nonpareil Event

"Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport."

~ Serge Schmemann

Source: brainyquote.com

Different Now

"You're different now. You see it, don't you? You hurt people all the time."

~ Baelfire [to his father]

Once Upon a Time > season one > episode #19 "The Return"
Source: ouatquotes.tumblr.com > archive > 21 June 2012

Rivered Soul

"I have found beauty even in the shipwrecked thoughts that litter the very bottom of your tear filled seas."

~ R. A. Ramos

Source: Instagram > @raramos_

Knowledge

"No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire."

~ L. Frank Baum

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 15 May 2014

The Fire Burning Inside

"Dreams are what keep us going. They're a reflection of who we are, what we want to be, and what we want from life. Our dreams, hopes, and aspirations keep the fire burning inside us and motivate us to keep going even when everything seems futile. [. . .]"

~ Quotery.com

Source: Quotery.com > Topics > Dreams > intro

Mess and Complications

"What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications."

~ Nora Ephron

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Monday, 19 May 2014

How Much He'd Learned

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

~ Mark Twain

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Sunday, 15 June 2014

All Is Thine

"Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all."

~ Paul

Source: Bible Gateway VOTD, 4 June 2014; The King James Bible > I Chronicles 29:11

More or Less Sane

"It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane."

~ W. G. Sebald

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Sunday, 18 May 2014

Shadowy Memory

"For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'e turn each page and read every word. I can picture her in the dim light of the cave with her bright eyes and her smile and I close my eyes. That shadowy memory might be as close as I come to seeing her again. We have the map, but the distance we still have to cross looks almost insurmountable."

~ Ally Condie, Crossed

Source: Goodreads > Crossed > Quotes from Crossed

The Right Road and My Own Path

"All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path."

~ Sigrid Undset

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Tuesday, 20 May 2014

A Passion, Not a Purpose

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not--they cannot be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

~ Edgar Allen Poe

Source: Quotery.com > Topics > Dreams > Edgar Allen Poe

No Uncharitable Prejudice

"I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one."

~ Herman Melville

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Tuesday, 1 April 2014

The People I Couldn't Save

"My regrets are about the people I couldn't save--Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them."

~ Chris Kyle, American Sniper

Source: Goodreads > American Sniper > Quotes from American Sniper

Seek First

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

~ Matthew

Source: The King James Bible > Matthew 6:33

The Courage to Follow

"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."

~ Erica Jong

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Radiant

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."

~ Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

Source: Goodreads > The Hunger Games > Quotes from The Hunger Games

The Magic of Translating Words...

"Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space..."

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Friday, 28 March 2014

Willingness to Wrestle

"Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing."

~ August Wilson

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Sunday, 27 April 2014

Nicer Than New Bread

"I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea."

~ Dodie Smith

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Saturday, 3 May 2014

Nobility in the Struggle

"There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win."

~ Sharon Pollock

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Saturday, 19 April 2014

Your Labor is Not in Vain

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

~ Paul

Source: The King James Bible > I Corinthians 15:57-58

A Girl Who Could Not Wait

"She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next."

~ Beverly Cleary

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Saturday, 12 April 2014

Regret in the Shadows

"She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on the lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on..."

~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Source: Goodreads > The Book Thief > Quotes from The Book Thief

Deep Delight

"Tell me a story of deep delight."

~ Robert Penn Warren

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 20 December 2013

The Sky Wept Stars

"Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them."

~ Ishmael Beah

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 23 November 2013

Fierce and Original

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

~ Gustave Flaubert

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 12 December 2013

They Who For Their Country Die

"And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave,

for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave."

~ Joseph Rodman Drake

Source: Quotery.com

No Greater Love

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

~ John

Source: The King James Bible > John 15:13

Invaluable Belongings

"I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude."

~ Colette

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Really Good Books of Your Own

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 22 May 2014