Archetypically Quotes

#1. Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

Marge Piercy

#2. I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

Bill Watterson

#3. Create expectations to fulfil them.

Robert Bresson

#4. Isn't it ironic, Richard Parker? We're in hell yet still we're afraid of immortality

Yann Martel

#5. I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.

Cate Tiernan

#6. Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

Seneca The Younger

#7. I told you, Hell-Bard. Everyone lies. It's in the way we banter with our friends. It's in the mundane greetings we give passersby. It's in the most meaningless things we do every single moment of every single day. Hundreds upon thousands of tiny, inconsequential lies.

Susan Dennard

#8. Keep your sword close and your friends closer.

Kiley Kellermeyer

#9. I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

Theodore Bikel

#10. I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#11. Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

Lisa Wingate

#12. Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Northrop Frye

#13. The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

Kevin Barry

#14. Love might come again, Surely Dreams Never.

Sarvesh Jain

#15. Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp. It pays off.

Justine Musk