Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Resolve and thou art free.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Right is its own defense.

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romanian culture in general. Along with focusing on the literature of the countries the Danube traversed (with an emphasis on Romania), we printed work that interested us from the banks of the Seine: French and French-Romanian authors like Cioran and Fondane. We dedicated our last edition to surrealism and Esthetic Onirisme.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.