Quotes About Experience

Some of our stories are shorter than others. Some last a hundred years. It's not how long you live; it's how you do it while you're lucky enough to have the chance.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don't want to remember." - Rachel Morgan

to know a piece of grass, you've got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that's why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.

You never know how you're going to react to something. To anything. Tragedy, joy, heartache. They affect us all in different ways in different times and different places.

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

I've never heard of it. And, I don't like to brag, but I read a lot. I mean a lot. And most of it is classified. - Megan

Switzerland didn't exactly work out. Neither did France. Or Norway." "Three schools?" Hale asked. "Well, technically, five schools—three countries.

I've been wrong, and I've been crazy. But this is the first time I've ever truly felt like a fool.

I wondered if I had ever been that small. I saw the innocence in their eyes, and I knew somehow that I would never feel that way again. I'd seen too much - I knew too little.

After all, there are worse things than spending the end of February on a private yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean with friends and family

Bu sefer verecek bir cevab?, bir çözüm önerisi yoktu. Kat'in annesini kaybetmekten öÄŸrendiÄŸi bir ÅŸey varsa, o da dünyadaki en iyi h?rs?z?n bile zaman? çalamayaca??yd?. (syf. 134)

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Yet this is not a novel. It is a faithful transcription of my memories, some of them hazy, others riddled with holes left by the passage of the years, others patched up by time and the filters of experience and distance, and still others, no doubt, completely invented by the stubborn narrator we all have within us, who wants things to be the way they sound best to us now, and not the way they were.

Siempre queda una tristeza nueva por conocer, y un trapo roto y sucio para torearla.

Usted debe de ser muy feliz — le dije, sin pensar muy bien en el significado de las palabras que pronunciaba. — Pues no — y me pasó un brazo por el hombro, como si mi comentario la hubiera conmovido—. No soy muy feliz. ¿Por qué lo dices? — No sé, teniendo tantos libros... — moví las manos en el aire para ganar tiempo, mientras buscaba unas palabras que no logré encontrar—. Yo nunca he visto tantos juntos en mi vida.

Ellos son comunistas, y conocen por experiencia la temperatura a la que hierve el agua en la dirección de su partido, el tiempo necesario para que los procesos internos alcancen su punto de ebullición.

Luego alcancé a comprender que el tiempo nunca se gana, y que nunca se pierde, que la vida se gasta, simplemente.

Mírame, Malena, y escúchame. He vivido casi medio siglo, he pasado