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Much Quotes by E. M. Forster
- As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this…
- The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal…
- An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put…
- School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world…
- The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something…
- There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on…
- One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
- Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts…
- Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She…
- It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than…
- At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have…
- For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children…
- We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow…
- It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a…
- Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
- He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that…
- You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men…
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong