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
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
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must… — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image