Communication Quote by George Gissing

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There was an undeniable charm about the man, not merely the youthful airs of one who hadn’t seen the worst the world has to…

— V.E. Schwab

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

“There will always be a temptation to tell a neat story that makes everything sensible and logical and that suggests why the deserving succeeded…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an…

— Richard Feynman

“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”

— Erskine Childers

“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”

— T.H. White

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair