Quotes - Page 115 | Just Great DataBase

I only invoked what you already knew.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

that voice was a deathless song.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

O, that this too too solid flesh would meltThaw and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135)Seem to me all the uses of this world!Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,That grows to seed; things rank and gross in naturePossess it merely. That it should come to this!But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140)So excellent a king; that was, to this,

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.