Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

— Corrie ten Boom
Faith & Religion Trust

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

— Rick Riordan
General

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

— Scott Adams
Love Humor

Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda
Love Sadness & Pain

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

— Bram Stoker
General

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Art & Beauty

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr
Science

I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

— Leigh Bardugo
General

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

— Frank McCourt
Education & Knowledge

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

— Coco Chanel
Self & Identity Love Courage & Strength Relationships Women Freedom

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

— Jonathan Safran Foer
Life

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

— Christopher Paolini
Inspirational

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Friendship Education & Knowledge Wisdom

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

— Katharine Hepburn
General

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

— Marcus Aurelius
Life Art & Beauty Positive Thinking

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.