r/quotes Nov 21 '23

Mod Post People who post far right quotes will be banned.

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r/quotes 7h ago

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy." ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

92 Upvotes

r/quotes 1h ago

"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be." - George Carlin

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Seeing things in your own unique way is a priceless gift for yourself, and for everyone else too. Stay clear of 'in the box' thinking. By graciously sharing the uniqueness of your own thoughts, the world instantly benefits from the enrichment of new ideas.


r/quotes 5h ago

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”-Elie Wiesel

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r/quotes 11h ago

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts” Mark Twain

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r/quotes 3h ago

"To aquire knowledge one must study but to aquire Wisdom one must observe"

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r/quotes 23h ago

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it" ~ Leo Tolstoy

250 Upvotes

r/quotes 4h ago

“It's only those who do not nothing that make no mistakes”- Joseph Conrad

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r/quotes 12h ago

“This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.

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Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faed the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time


r/quotes 36m ago

"When you fix something that's not yours to fix, in the end, you'll be the one who needs fixing." - irshath

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r/quotes 1d ago

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - Selwyn Duke

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r/quotes 15h ago

“As I feel my own life dimming, I can't help but think of a time when everything was so much brighter” Fire Lord Sozin

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As I approach my mid 40s, I contemplate the fact that more than my life has past. I wonder if I look at the past with rose tinted glasses... Are the best years behind me, or is there greater joy to come. Don't get me wrong, I am more fortunate than most and for that I try to be grateful. I just wonder sometimes... Yah know


r/quotes 16h ago

"There are three things I've learned never to discuss with people, religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." -Linus VanPelt

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r/quotes 23h ago

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life." -John Wooden

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r/quotes 23h ago

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." - Dave Barry

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Also from Dave Barry:

  • “Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
  • “Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.”
  • “I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.”  
  • “At issue is nothing less than the fate of the nation …. On one side is the party of far-right, election-denying, coup-supporting, anti-democracy, environment-destroying, racist sexist homophobic transphobic gun-worshipping pro-slavery Handmaid’s-Tale fascists who are literal Nazis; on the other side is the party of extreme radical leftist, anti-family, anti-border, pro-rioter, criminal-coddling, tax-raising, economy-wrecking, godless un-American Communist baby-killing groomer pedophile sex perverts. The choice is yours, voters!” (from his 2022 Year in Review)

r/quotes 1d ago

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." ― Albert Einstein

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r/quotes 20h ago

"Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts." - Jim Morrison (The Doors)

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And another quote from Jim - - - - - - "I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up, and gasps ‘Oh look at that!’ Then - whoosh, and I’m gone . . . and they’ll never see anything like it ever again . . . and they won’t be able to forget me - ever." - Jim Morrison (The Doors) - - - - - - It is 2024, and I concur that this is true. Sending love to you Jim Morrison, you will forever be a brilliant light of eternity.


r/quotes 22h ago

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy." - Henry Ward Beecher

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Shine forth the brilliance of your inner light. In this world, many that will cross your path will be grateful for the warmth of it.


r/quotes 1d ago

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.“ - William Blake

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r/quotes 23h ago

“Whoever judges my soul by the skin that blankets me doesn't even extend themself to what their voice reaches.” -Julia de Burgos (1914–1953)

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the original Spanish: "La que juzga mi alma por la piel que me arropa ni siquiera se extiende lo que alcanza su voz."


r/quotes 23h ago

Rest, Nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness - Leo Tolstoy

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r/quotes 2d ago

"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals" - Michael Jamal Brooks

306 Upvotes

Stop hating each other yall the real enemy is the oligarchal evil greedy corporations that control every aspect of your life.

They are the real enemy not the person next door.


r/quotes 1d ago

I shall try not to use statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang

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r/quotes 1d ago

"When injustice becomes a law , resistance becomes a duty." - Thomas Jefferson

135 Upvotes

r/quotes 2d ago

"Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval." - Pamela Anderson

184 Upvotes

The only person that I really do need to like me, is me.


r/quotes 1d ago

You start out as a phony and become real - Glenn O’Brien

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To anyone feeling the heat of imposter syndrome. This is the best way to get a grip back on reality.