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Us Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we…
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
- One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
- It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and…
- It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be…
- No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then…
- The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above…
- Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- 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…
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than…
- 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…
- If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
- The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us…
- If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
- She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position;…
- Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
- For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children…
- Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
- We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong