19 Quotes Tagged: awesome

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a church; and while youth and early middle-age, while the stiff American breeze of example and opportunity were blowing upon it hard, had made the chamber of his brain a strange workshop of fortune. This establishment, mysterious and almost anonymous, the windows of which, at hours of highest pressure, never seemed, for starers and wonderers, perceptibly to glow, must in fact have been during certain years the scene of an unprecedented, a miraculous white-heat, the receipt for producing which it was practically felt that the master of the forge could not have communicated even with the best intentions.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.

This or that is proclaimed awesome every second sentence - and we have lost a wonderful English word.

"If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." — Prince Oberyn of Dorne.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

So, here are my windows, stained all with me.

Some people can't handle your level of awesome. That's okay. Just keep being you. There are people who can and will.

One can't learn much and
also be comfortable
One can't learn much and
let anybody else be comfortable

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.