222 Quotes

#1. 222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.

Max F. Muller

#2. Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection.

Deyth Banger

#3. Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

Gerald R. Ford

#4. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Yolandi, the central character in the book "All My Puny Sorrows" says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Miriam Toews

#6. Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

Gene Luen Yang

#7. Loyal prophets of an indifferent god" (on the topic of alcoholics, p.222)

Lev Grossman

#8. The journey is about coming home ... There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail. (p. 220,222)

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Anthony Marra

#10. Love not only stings when you lose it, when it's ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply.

Cat Porter

#11. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Gioconda Belli

#12. I turned back looking far away not making contact with anyone and I paced to my room with tears in my eyes, solitude in my heart and nuisance in my mind. I locked my door, rested in bed and slept while still desperate.

Shaikh Ashraf

#13. By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

Baba Hari Dass

#14. In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)

Ai Yazawa

#15. The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?

Catherine Hapka

#16. All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire

#17. In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

Dan Miller

#18. There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

Bianca Jagger

#20. Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Zig Ziglar

#21. She(Annabeth) saw Grover and said weakly, your not ... married?

Rick Riordan

#22. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

Herman Melville

#23. Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

Darius Rucker

#24. And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.

Sylvain Reynard