Quotes of Tobias Wolff

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We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.

- Tobias Wolff

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“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett