Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become stronger, after it's been broken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for… — Anthony Lilles Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears, To me the meanest… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives. We pray not to acquire… — Ilia Delio O.S.F Copy Share Image
Human heart is like the reflection on the waters surface, the mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels. But… — Naruto Copy Share Image
“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means “the longing for something.” It has Romantic and mystical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. — Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
