Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My… — Kate Kerrigan Copy Share Image
“I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I believed my motivations were clear: to help the patient see the pattern that had been imposed upon her, this endless repetition of being… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that time. So… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“They opened my mind to realities I didn’t know existed. They forced me to be resilient, to sacrifice, to see how little I knew,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. Without… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
“I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other people's attempts to enforce structure on… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.” — William Chapman Sharpe Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
