Harcourts Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. — Oscar Wilde

Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious. — Nirmala Srivastava

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. — Gary Allan

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up. — Jeremy Renner

And when Tolstoy found God his lines went limp, and Turgenev on his deathbed grieved for him because although Tolstoy had given up his land and his coppers for God, he had also given up something else. And although Dostoevski ended up on believing in Christ, he took the long road to get there, a most interesting and perhaps unwholesome road over roulette tables, raping a small child, standing before a wall waiting for the rifles to fire, he found that "adversity is the main-spring of self-realism," he found his Christ, but what a most interesting Christ, a self-made Christ, and I bow to him. — Charles Bukowski