« All One Quotes · John Steinbeck's Page
Best One Quotes by John Steinbeck
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and…
- I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness…
- One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
- No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- No one who is young is ever going to be old.
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive…
- What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in…
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
- New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,…
- Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't…
- One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all…
- A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in…
More Ways to Read One Quotes by John Steinbeck
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle