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Years Quotes by John Green
- So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or…
- Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
- I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I…
- Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole…
- The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our…
- I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
- The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed…
- And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some…
- In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank,…
- In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
- I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
- Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
- There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy.…
- I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did…
- There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the…
- All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour…
- History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making…
- The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
- Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing…
- I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman…
- People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years,…
- Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot…
- This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They…
- You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still…
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- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz