623 Quotes About Insightful

You would not search the woodside gayTo pick a springtime flowerWhen all the shuddering country groansBefore the North Wind's power.Nor would you seek with greedy handTo pluck your vines in May;The wine god gives his gift of grapesWhen Autumn's on the way.For God has fixed the season's tasksAnd each receives its own:No power is free to disarrayThe order God has shown.

I looked her in the eye, trying to see beyond the pose, trying to imagine what she as like when she was alone... but I couldn't see it. That sort of girl is never alone, because without other people they have to be themselves, and they can't stand themselves.

Every one of us is a unique battery running on a 16 or 18 hour a day charge, and the energy we deploy on this mutable Earth, can change the course of its History and ours

Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you. It cannot see you; it has always been blind to the human and the things we do to stave it off, the taxonomies, the cleaning, the arranging, the ordering.

Dreams are what keep you going when real life lets you down.

Sometimes the only way to hunt somebody is to pretend to be a prey.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, opportunity always knocks more than once whereas a false step can never be retraced.

People don't usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words convey truth. That when someone hears the word "red" he will think of a ripe raspberry and not a pool of blood. That the word "love" will evoke Shakespeare's sonnets and not the erotic films of Playboy. And they find themselves baffled when the word they've spoken doesn't evoke the right response.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.