My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . . — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs maybe graduated thus: Just below the shoulder… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“New York November 10, 1958 Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn’t love him?” “Maybe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. — 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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
