Grapes Of Wrath Penguin Classics Quotes & Sayings

For it was their world, not Man's. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars. — Arthur C. Clarke

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. — Sylvia Plath

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week. — Art Bell

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. — Jack Weatherford

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. — John Ruskin

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I love redheads. It's not the hair color, it's the crazy. — Michael Makai

But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it. — Samuel Beckett

The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same. — Joe Abercrombie

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. — David Hackworth

That is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. — Stieg Larsson

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. — Grimes

Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again. — Paige McKenzie

Where is your unit?" Murphy asked.
I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface. — Jim Butcher