"In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is……" — Cynthia Ozick
"In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing."
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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site.
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
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The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This…
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More Begets Quotes
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Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
— Alec Baldwin
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.
— Jim Cymbala
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which…
— James Madison
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Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
— Jean Cocteau
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Remorse begets reform.
— William Cowper
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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event…
— David Hume
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Solitude begets whimsies.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished…
— Honore de Balzac
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