He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
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Brigham Young
I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, ' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who...
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Sherman Alexie
You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.
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Kami Garcia
I'm calm, " Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?"" Look, " I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything."" Nah. They asked me a lot of...
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Rick Riordan
I can only assume, " said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.
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Cassandra Clare
More Quotes By Lawrence Durrell
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of...
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
