Language Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

— Gunter Grass

“And however much the princess was assured that in our time young people themselves must settle their fate, she was unable to believe it,…

— Tolstoy, Leo

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it…

— Anonymous

There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at…

— Stephen King

I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still…

— Caroline Lawrence

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

— Franz Halder

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's…

— Barry Hannah

“This is exactly why babies should not be allowed to dual-wield flintlock pistols.”

— Andrew Hussie

I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a…

— Dizzy Dean

When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When…

— Eiichiro Oda

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently…

— Theodor Adorno