"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must……" — Jack London
"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
—
Jack London
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
95 Quotes by Jack London
Jack London has 95 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to…
-
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
-
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just…
-
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
-
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
-
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
-
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
-
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
-
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
-
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
-
You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises…
See all 95 quotes by Jack London »
More Continually Quotes
This quote is filed under Continually Quotes,
one of 744 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
— Paul Auster
-
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
-
I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
-
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United…
— Joe Barton
-
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
-
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
-
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
-
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in…
— Annie Besant
-
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to…
— Samuel Butler
-
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
-
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
— Willa Cather
-
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
— Bernie Siegel
See all 744 Continually Quotes »