Gabriele Wills > Gabriele's Quotes

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

“And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?”
― Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
― Martin Tupper

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
― William Styron

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau