Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Children make your life important.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Comics are a gateway into literature.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.