Category: Quotes

  • 1984 Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    إدراك المرء لكونه في حالة حرب ومن ثم تتهدده الأخطار يجعل من تسليم كل السلطات لحفنة صغيرة من الناس أمراً طبيعياً وشرطاً محتوماً للبقاء على قيد الحياة 1984 54 History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. 1984 54 إلى المستقبل أو الماضي , إلى الزمن الذي…

  • The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 15 | Just Great DataBase

    He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind. The Great Gatsby 0 Non pretenderei troppo da lei” arrischiai.”Non si può ripetere il passato.””Non si può ripetere il passato?” fece lui incredulo. “Ma certo che si può! The Great Gatsby 0 È invariabilmente…

  • Quotes – Page 222 | Just Great DataBase

    O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. -Augustine St. Clare Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 8 Whence, I often…

  • Quotes – Page 261 | Just Great DataBase

    Awright—take ’im. He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 5 Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration…

  • Flowers for Algernon Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    I can’t help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt. Flowers for Algernon 10 The most…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 22 | Just Great DataBase

    It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution Pride and Prejudice 0 Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet’s being quite unable to sit alone. Pride and Prejudice 0…

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quotes

    Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Judge Thatcher 6 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and…

  • Quotes – Page 506 | Just Great DataBase

    You must demand from each person what that person can give, — the King replied. — Authority is founded first and foremost upon reason. If you order your people to go and jump into the sea, it would start a revolution. It is because my orders are reasonable that I have the right to expect…

  • The Awakening Quotes

    The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The Awakening 2743 The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. The Awakening 341 The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 9 | Just Great DataBase

    It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. Charles Dickens Hard…