Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Melissa de la Cruz

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• I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Realize

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Honesty

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Different
  • Tiger

• I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Always
  • Little

• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Dating

• Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Work
  • Blue

• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Children

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Wisdom

• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Book
  • Color
  • Revolution

• Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Truth

• Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee, But it will come to rise again.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • Heart

• Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Heart
  • Belly

• 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

  

  Geoff Shepherd
  • Heart
  • inspirational
  • Meaningful

• There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Scripture

• A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Heart
  • Meaningless
  • Reasoning