Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of words and literature. In my view, that is, however, only half true. In a roundabout way through literature, which presupposes empathy and exact observation, he immerses himself again in the life of society; in a certain sense he comes back to it.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Knowledge is justified belief.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.