Tale Of Two Cities Family Quotes & Sayings

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. — Sharon Creech

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them. — Leo Tolstoy

Can you even have human nature if you don't have the capacity to feel?" I ask.
"Do you mean on some kind of existentialist 'what are we if not the things we feel' kind of way?" I don't know what he means by existentialist. I say as much. He laughs. I entertain the idea of stabbing him for several minutes. — Ellis Adler

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it. — Milan Kundera

In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening. — Samuel R. Delany

We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished.. — John F. Kennedy

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. — Alan Watts

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along — E. M. Forster

Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now
Oliver:focus ya fool — Rachel Caine

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? — Henry Bromell

Whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19 — Beth Moore

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. — Bill Watterson

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. "Government money," of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing. — Albert Jay Nock

Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes