Daily Quotes 4u

The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought (Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro)

Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre (Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence)

So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’ (Abdul Sattar Edhi)

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life (Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder)

Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to find someone these days with the time to give something precious to listeners, who understands stories at a profound level and can tell them without a book or a page in hand? – Erika Eichenseer, The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

Almost lost you,” he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. “Been through too much, me and you. We’re going to finish this thing together. (Brom, The Child Thief)

Sometimes I feel like we’re a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. (Kiera Cass, The Elite)

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. (Daniel Hecht, Bones of the Barbary Coast)

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis (John Parenti)