Italicizing Book Quotes & Sayings

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience. — Zbigniew Herbert

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation. — James Thurber

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life. — Charles Kettering

I have never been hurt by what I have not said. — Calvin Coolidge

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief. — Romain Rolland

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood. — Nikos Kazantzakis

For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. — Kate Morton