Movst Quotes & Sayings

Could it be that Americans are a restless people, a mobile people, never satisfied with where they are as a matter of selection? The pioneers, the immigrants who peopled the continent, were the restless ones in Europe. The steady rooted ones stayed home and are still there. But every one of us ... are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Wouldn't it be unusual if we had not inherited this tendency? And the fact is that we have. — John Steinbeck

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me. — Alan Lightman

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. — Shirley Jackson

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things. — Joanne Harris

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear. — Susan Juby

I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad - for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did not know anything about the existence of God or the Devil. In sum, we were like a religious vision without revelation. A mystic experience, but without a core of truth. — Anne Rice

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. — Katharine Whitehorn

My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you? — Liane Moriarty

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. — Muhammad Ali

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. — Denis Diderot