Bartleby The Scrivener Setting Quotes & Sayings

Women are mysterious, he mused.
She laughed, In what way?
They're a study in contrast: soft and strong, fierce and gentle. They can do everything, of course, and yet one feels compelled to do everything for them. — Sylvain Reynard

You don't give something away because it's fat. You take it and you look at it. — Chelsea Handler

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched. — Edward Young

There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span. — Noam Chomsky

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support. — Alana Stewart

Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization. — Larry Niven

Family is what could motivate a man to knowingly house a spy. it could give him the fortitude to look her in the eye and pretend he cared. — T.A. Maclagan