Literature Quotes - Page 55

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

We must become just be doing just acts.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Appearances are often deceiving.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.