146 quotes found
“Love is like a prison..difficult to breakout,painful to get caught and easier to get in.”
“I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.”
“But the Seeker, who is of unsure gait, also has unsure traits. The way that he moves is unstable and ungainly. It is also unnatural. No other life form adopted this precarious locomotion method of ...”
“Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps...”
“As I grew older and when I became wiser, I realized that not only are we made of molecules, we are also governed and ruled by them. We are just molecular slaves in this vast limitless creation.”
“The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.”
“How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived y...”
“Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' s...”
“To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.”
“You're a crazy woman, looking for an honest liar."Kyra to Rey (Reyes)”
“It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”
“Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that m...”
“To excel in life, one must become conscious that the way lived is not the only way of living.”
“For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph ...”
“...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then rea...”
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
“Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chi...”
“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.”
“The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.”
“if you want to be understood ...Listen.”
