Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 484 | Just Great DataBase

    Bird life aplenty is found in the sunny air, not all of it significant. Homer The Odyssey 0 What he’s telling us, his level smile implies, is for our own good. Everything will be all right soon. I promise. There will be peace. You must trust. You must go to sleep, like good children. He…

  • Quotes – Page 84 | Just Great DataBase

    The only thing you’ve got in this world is what you can sell. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman 84 Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hitWith Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,From Love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 26 | Just Great DataBase

    …perhaps that might be the way to write this book–to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves. John Steinbeck Cannery Row 4 How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he…

  • Quotes – Page 77 | Just Great DataBase

    Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote 99 …like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. Homer…

  • Quotes – Page 88 | Just Great DataBase

    Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. William Shakespeare Othello 77 Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 91 | Just Great DataBase

    Eliza Bennet,’ said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, ‘is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art. Jane Austen…

  • Quotes – Page 458 | Just Great DataBase

    (…) cause after a request like that there’s always a next time, wether you say yes or no. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 Be brave! Let’s remember our duty and perform it without complaint. There will be a way out. God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer,…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 43 | Just Great DataBase

    The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air as if there were no such thing as change on earth. Yet the bells, when they sounded told me sorrowfully of change in…

  • Paper Towns Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    Dieses Etwas, das tiefer liegt und geheimer ist. Es ist wie ein Riss tief in dir drin. Paper Towns 0 Digital communication is such a problem sometimes. Paper Towns 0 I’ve never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I’ve never seen her eyes before. Paper Towns 0 After all that hearing,…

  • Quotes – Page 137 | Just Great DataBase

    if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 30 And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that…