4715 Quotes & Sayings

What we know about writing the novel is the novel. — Eudora Welty

But, new soldier that I was, I understood at last what Cadus had been trying to tell me all along: that life and love and rank were not enough. To be whole in myself, I needed honour, and I had lost it, and could see no way to get it back. — M.C. Scott

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. — Patricia Churchland

His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss. — Jules Verne

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. — Earl Wilson

Where may he be at present?' Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. 'He — Charles Dickens

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you HAVEN'T done. — The Butthole Surfers

We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even — Thomas Sankara

Age is a number on a piece of paper. — Emmanuelle Seigner

Religion is funny stuff, and it has unpredictable effects on those who use it. — Richard K. Morgan

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers

Something deep inside me lurched.
The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary. — Stephanie Perkins