Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions — adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. ”

- Steven Spielberg

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou