Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 464 | Just Great DataBase

    Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that.…

  • Quotes – Page 437 | Just Great DataBase

    He asked me why I had put Maman in the home. I answered that it was because I didn’t have the money to have her looked after and cared for. He asked me if it had been hard on me, and I answered that Maman and I didn’t expect anything from each other anymore, or…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 54 | Just Great DataBase

    She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance, ease, but not elegance… Her person was rather good; her face not unpretty; but neither feature nor air, nor voice, nor manner were elegant. Jane Austen Emma 2 Certainly silly things…

  • William Faulkner Quotes – Page 13 | Just Great DataBase

    escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 1 Yes, we laughed, because I have learned this at least during these four years: that it really requires an empty stomach to laugh with, that only when you…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 100 | Just Great DataBase

    O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell’st so sweet, William Shakespeare Othello 1      M.O.A. I. doth sway my life. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1 All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being…

  • Quotes – Page 75 | Just Great DataBase

    I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 102 Let my country die for me. James Joyce Ulysses 102 You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can’t say that Alabamans as…

  • Quotes – Page 302 | Just Great DataBase

    ¿Quién puede concebir los horrores de miencubierta tarea, hurgando en la húmeda oscuridad de las tumbas o atormentando a algún animal vivopara intentar animar el barro inerte? Ahora me tiemblan los miembros con sólo recordarlo; entoncesme espoleaba un impulso irresistible y casi frenético. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein 3 There is a tide in the affairs…

  • Julius Caesar Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, ‘This was a man! Julius Caesar 0 There is a tide in the affairs of men      Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;      Omitted, all the voyage of their life      Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Julius Caesar 0 Good reasons must,…

  • Quotes – Page 95 | Just Great DataBase

    Blood will have blood. William Shakespeare Macbeth 66 Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. William Shakespeare Macbeth 66 What the Chronics are – or most of us – are machines with flaws inside that…

  • Quotes – Page 16 | Just Great DataBase

    We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.We lived in the gaps between the stories. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1093 There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true. Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell…