453 quotes found
“When in doubt do it.”
“Systems die instincts remain.”
“Living was a sad and empty thing”
“Logic is logic. That's all I say.”
“No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.”
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or rev...”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
“You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.”
“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993)...”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ...”
“So how did you think about him? Rachel asks.Hallelujah shrugs. We were friends. Good friends. He knewknowsa lot about me. I guess I know a lot about him. Stuff he likes and doesnt like.Rachel looks...”
“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.”
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevi...”
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a ...”
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characte...”
