But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — 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
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
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased:… — 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
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — 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
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries… — 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
