637 quotes found
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that ...”
“john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that”
“Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.”
“the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub...”
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history...”
“In the long run one gets used to anything.”
“... the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64”
“Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the c...”
“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.”
“I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t change that.”
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield”
“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.”
“- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.”
“It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.”
“We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.”
“Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thou...”
“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”
“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell t...”
