Unthreading Quotes

#1. Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.
'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

Kevin Rudd

#3. I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I wasn't unpopular, exactly. I was just . . . unequipped.

Katie Cotugno

#5. Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.

L.J.Smith

#6. Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Alphonso Jackson

#8. My righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.

Anonymous

#9. Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality
for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

Terri Windling

#10. The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

#11. The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. The woman at the next table is making eyes at you," Lanie said, whispering conspiratorially.

"Really? What does she make them out of? Cloth?

M.K. Schiller

#13. I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

Wayne Knight

#14. I need a friend - I need you.

Mariana Zapata

#15. I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Willie Mays

#16. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

Richard Henry Dana Jr.