Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

Showing 1-15 of 15

like

#1

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: insightful

1373 likes

like

#2

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

386 likes

like

#3

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: anger, humor

63 likes

like

#4

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

148 likes

like

#5

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

34 likes

like

#6

“I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

32 likes

like

#7

“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

30 likes

like

#8

“To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: accomplishment, achievement, bee, bees, being-different, failure, freedom, hard-working, hardwork, queen-bee, success, successful, suzy-kassem, three-bees, work

54 likes

like

#9

“If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adventure, bandwagon, being-different, different, discovery, expectations, exploration, freedom, originality, rebel, society, thought

23 likes

like

#10

“We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: acceptance, caution, change, ethics, habit, hear, heard, importance, important, life, lifetime, listening, misleading, misled, morality, morals, others, path, people, persuasion, respect, stability

7 likes

like

#11

“The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

156 likes

like

#12

“The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

60 likes

like

#13

“What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

19 likes

like

#14

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: insightful

757 likes

like

#15

“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: direct, insightful

131 likes

All Quotes

Tags From Rachel’s Quotes

insightful
anger
humor
accomplishment
achievement
bee
bees
being-different
failure
freedom
hard-working
hardwork
queen-bee
success
successful
suzy-kassem
three-bees
work
adventure
bandwagon
different
discovery
expectations
exploration
originality
rebel
society
thought
acceptance
caution
change
ethics
habit
hear
heard
importance
important
life
lifetime
listening
misleading
misled
morality
morals
others
path
people
persuasion
respect
stability
direct