Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

There's nothing political about American literature.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

There were, like, 20 of [Jackie Kennedy's biographies], which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the [Arthur] Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.