Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

To create something you must be something.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.