Literature Quotes - Page 52

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.