John Steinbeck The Winter Of Our Discontent Quotes & Sayings

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. — John Steinbeck

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married. — Tracey Emin

I'm a big yachting fan. — David Cunliffe

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. — John Steinbeck

I wept for my family, all if us, my beautiful, idyllic, lost family. I wept for our excesses, our delusions and inconsistencies; not that we had cared too much or too little, although both were true, but that we had let such extraordinary care be subverted into extraordinary carelessness. We'd been careless with the best of our many resources: each other. It was as though we had taken for granted the fact that there would be more where we had come from too; another chance, another summer, another Brooke, Bridget or Bill. — Brooke Hayward

It is never a crime to love someone. — Malinda Lo

This violence is attributed in no small part to the gangs that prey on illegals who don't use banks. Pockets stuffed with cashed paychecks make inviting targets on a Friday night. Though — Mitty Walters

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. — Colin Powell