Up Pompeii Memorable Quotes

#1. Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine

Common

#2. The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

Hiro Mashima

#3. One of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Rebecca West

#4. Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

William A. Dembski

#5. Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. We are much better than we know.

Lance Armstrong

#7. On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.

J.G. Ballard

#8. It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Andres Segovia

#9. Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#10. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

Herbert Kalmus

#11. What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart ...

Heloise

#12. The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

William Hazlitt

#13. No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Louis De Bernieres

#14. I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow?

Devon Aoki

#15. Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

J.M. Coetzee