Nyrb Classics Quotes & Sayings

you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency. — Barbara Kingsolver

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda

I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated. — Michael Chabon

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else. — Chespirito

We shall live to die once more. — Sandra Chami Kassis

It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference. — Jean Liedloff

Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess — Martin Boyd

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. — Willard Scott

God is in the midst, and each drop tries to expand so as to reflect Him to the greatest extent. And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges. — Leo Tolstoy

What was he going to say? He doubted she'd want to hear about his favorite topic-which swords were best suited for different situations. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so. — Teri Hall

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.' — Steve Wozniak