19 quotes found
“The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.”
“We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.”
“If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.”
“It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.”
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”
“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kindseven including, if you will pard...”
“For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him w...”
“Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue...”
“Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization - The safe men. The compromisers...”
“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplat...”
“Where had they all gone to, he often pondered; those threads he had once held together, how far had they scattered, some to break, others to weave into unknown patterns? The strange randomness of t...”
“What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun....”
“I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.”
“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong directi...”
“You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry."Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?""It is called Karakal""I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?""O...”
“It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.”
“For London, Blampied claimed, was of all cities in the world the most autumnal its mellow brickwork harmonizing with fallen leaves and October sunsets, just as the etched grays of November composed...”
“For London, Blampied claimed, was of all cities in the world the most autumnal —its mellow brickwork harmonizing with fallen leaves and October sunsets, just as the etched grays of November compose...”
