We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out. The postmaster… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Course you did,” said Tom. “Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you’d be passin’ the time a day with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
