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Them Quotes by Mark Helprin
- How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in…
- New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil…
- The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks,…
- I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current…
- Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
- As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them…
- To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is…
- They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.
- their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
- and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I…
- They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they…
- Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth…
- I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find…
- Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only…
- And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
More Them Quotes
- 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