Foolish Quotes - Page 13

• sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

  Julia Quinn

  Sound, Sometimes, Bones

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• Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love You, Sacrifice, Differences

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• Brighid’s eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete with the Morrigan’s red flashes. Maybe I should try to figure out how to make my eyes flash green so I could freak out the baristas at Starbucks. “No, you foolish mortal,” I’d say as my eyes glowed, “I ordered a nonfat latte.

  Kevin Hearne

  Eye, Blue, Flames

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.163, Del Rey

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• Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

  Yukio Mishima

  Ideas, People, Done

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “After The Banquet”, p.10, Random House

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• Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Heart, Men

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.445, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Block, Tired

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• Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Book, House, Tree

  Jane Hirshfield, “Tree”

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• Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Would Be, Done, Known

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Law, Wife

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• The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fighting, May

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• In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Garden, Deceit

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• I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Feelings, Said

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• You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Lazy

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.59, Random House

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• Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

  Madeline Miller

  Men, Invention, Said

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• Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Names, People

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• Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

  Jewel

  Heart, Games, Knees

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• I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things we would be wise never to forget....first, forget not to be patient with yourself...second, forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice...third, forget not to be happy now...fourth, forget not the why of the gospel...fifth, forget not that the Lord loves you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Wise, Flower, Love You

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• I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kissing, Track

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.55, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, Excited

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• If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.14, Vintage

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• Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Men, Age

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.416, Macmillan

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• What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

  David Wong

  Believe, Eye, Tears

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.20, Macmillan

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• There is nothing foolish about hope.

  N.K. Jemisin

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• Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.83, Baker Books

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• Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained. "He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.

  Tamora Pierce

  Men, Thinking, Crow

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