Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to the notion of national literature/culture-it all exerts pressure upon writers who must be aware of the transformational possibilities of the situation.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Even boredom has its crises.

Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.