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Such Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat…
- If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a…
- All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls…
- A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like…
- For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the…
- One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
- How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build…
- Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and…
- I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will…
- Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving…
- Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really…
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
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- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough