Quote by Joseph Heller

“You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any…

— Joseph Heller

Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be…

— Joseph Heller

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then,"…

— Joseph Heller

“The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on”

— Joseph Heller

“But I’ve always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally and to…

— Courtney Milan

“You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian”

— Joseph Heller

“And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly…

— Mark Slouka

“Reverence reduces hostility.”

— Toba Beta

“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself…

— Shirley Hazzard

“My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Notice what your inner critic is saying, and issue a cease and desist! Regain control. Resist, and refuse to listen.”

— Susan C. Young

“For the most part, we hesitate to instruct, to admonish, and, as occasion demands, to correct, and even to reprehend them. This we do…

— Augustine of Hippo