Classicist Edith Quotes & Sayings

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. — Rajneesh

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all. — Brad Pitt

All Poets are mad. — Robert Burton

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking. — Gore Vidal

Because I think I love you, and you just see me as a toy. — E.L. James

The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything! — Stephenie Meyer

The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. — Edith Hamilton

There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.'
'What's that?'
'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.'
Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked.
'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir? — Bernard Cornwell

It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating. — Madeleine Albright

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. — Thomas Merton

For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming.
There is more. — Nicholas Sparks

...something more than the sum of its parts- — Victoria Schwab