Moralizes Quotes & Sayings

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. — Mary Oliver

We've worn our words to death,
when now I say: my love,
nothing happens, absolutely nothing.
And yet, before the words were spent,
I'm certain
that everything trembled
at the mere murmur of your name
in the silence of my heart.
Now we have nothing to give.
There is nothing within you
that asks me for water.
The past is useless as a rag.
And I've told you already: the words are spent.
Good-bye. — Eugenio De Andrade

As an author my number 1 goal is to help others overcome despair ... which is something that has plague me in my lifetime. If my writing could have help at least one person overcome it in their lifetime, then when I look back at my life ... I can believe, I did a job well done. — Timothy Pina

I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies. — Rich Sommer

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. — Confucius

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both. — W.K. Marriott

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.
Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party. — Umberto Eco

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel. — Margot Livesey

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. — Oscar Wilde

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths. — John Cusack

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. — Jonah Goldberg

I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs. — Lester Grinspoon