Sharovapro Quotes & Sayings

the novel is not capable of as much artistic development as the drama: its humanity or the grossness of its material hinder it (use whichever phrase you like). To most readers of fiction the sensation from a pattern is not intense enough to justify the sacrifices that made it, and their verdict is "Beautifully done, but not worth doing. — E. M. Forster

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. — Alexander Pope

He rubbed his unshaven chin with the back of his hand. Beyond the gates lay a life he had been forbidden. He tightened his grip on the satchel and walked spindle-legged over the sodden ground, glancing at the numerous closed doors on either side of the passage, expecting one to open at any moment. The walls echoed as he splashed through puddles of oil and water. He reached the gates, allowed himself a deep breath, and squinted through the ironwork. — Richard A. Kirk

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should. — Ian McKellen

we have measured the value of the world with categories that refer to a purely fabricated world." A fabricated world? Yes, the world as a superstructure, the world as a spirit, weightless and abstract, of the same material with which thoughts are woven, and through which therefore they can move unhindered. A world that after three hundred years of natural science is left without mysteries. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything lies within humanity's horizons of comprehension, from the biggest, the universe, whose oldest observable light, the farthest boundary of the cosmos, dates from its birth fifteen billion years ago, to the smallest, the protons and neutrons and mesons of the atom. — Karl Ove Knausgard

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. — Meg Cabot

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. — Learned Hand

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god ... What fools these mortals be. — Benjamin R. Smith

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience. — Roger Ebert

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse ... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil. — C.S. Lewis

If we can succeed in adding more female voices at the highest levels, we will expand opportunities and extend fairer treatment to all. — Sheryl Sandberg