Quotes - Page 450 | Just Great DataBase

we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. But

It was miraculous. Each day he faced was another dangerous mission against mortality. And he had been surviving them for twenty-eight years.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.

Cleopatra:If it be love indeed, tell me how much.Antony: There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

That is a reconstruction, too.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. "It's

It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked

This is the last straw, Atticus, Aunt Alexandra said. Depends on how you look at it, he said. What was one Negro, more or less, among two hundred of ’em? He wasn’t Tom to them, he was an escaping prisoner. Atticus leaned against the refrigerator, pushed up his glasses, and rubbed his eyes. We had such a good chance, he said. I told him what I thought, but I couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own.

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. He tried to think what a big thought that must be; but he could only think of God. God was God's name just as his name was Stephen. Dieu was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said Dieu then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying. But, though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages, still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians

A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.

Solitude was corrupting me...My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’ When

The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.