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Them Quotes by John Steinbeck
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
- And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in…
- Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he…
- No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe
- Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on…
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all…
- Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- 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…
- Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them…
- It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
- Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.…
- Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster