Category: Quotes

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 32 | Just Great DataBase

    What the two drank together, between Hilary Term and Michaelmas, might have floated a king’s ship. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson’s, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them),…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase

    I think I love you, Cal.” -AbraI’m not good.” -CalBecause you’re not good.” -Abra John Steinbeck East of Eden 124 Sure, cried the tenant men,but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours….That’s what makes ownership, not a paper…

  • Quotes – Page 288 | Just Great DataBase

    Тъй се борим с вълните, кораби срещу течението, непрестанно отнасяни назад в миналото. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 4 When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls The…

  • Quotes – Page 85 | Just Great DataBase

    Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Future 83 You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won’t wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she’ll hear you. Page number…

  • Quotes – Page 475 | Just Great DataBase

    Pues cuando Él quiere que una cosa se mueva, bien que la hace alargada, sean caminos o caballos o carros; pero cuando Él quiere que una cosa se esté quieta, la hace para arriba, como los árboles y los hombres. William Faulkner As I Lay Dying 0 Angels Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 You…

  • Quotes – Page 107 | Just Great DataBase

    Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”–Charlie Gordan Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 53 Her absence had felt like torture–almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him. Stieg…

  • Quotes – Page 214 | Just Great DataBase

    I should like balls infinitely better,’ she replied, ‘if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day.”Much more rational, my dear Caroline,…

  • Quotes – Page 293 | Just Great DataBase

    But what will not ambition and revengeDescend to? John Milton Paradise Lost 4 Thou at the sightPleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave. John Milton Paradise Lost 4 No one must know that my heart and mind…

  • Quotes – Page 59 | Just Great DataBase

    “Hello!” He said hello and then said, “What are you up to now?” “I’m still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. “I don’t think I’d like that,” he said. “You might if you tried.” “I never have.” She licked her lips. “Rain even tastes good.” “What do you do, go…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Essays

    The Handmaids Tale by Margret Atwood Through literary works, authors usually describe events that seek to present various themes based on characters actions, viewpoints, and utterances. To this end, literary works normally have subtle lessons or analyses of various societal concepts, for example, discrimination of specific members of… 1 214 words Handmaids Tale Loss of…