Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 231 | Just Great DataBase

    What is disquieting is that where the USSR and its policies are concerned one cannot expect intelligent criticism or even, in many cases, plain honesty from Liberal [ sic—and throughout as typescript] writers and journalists who are under no direct pressure to falsify their opinions. George Orwell Animal Farm 7 All at once we were…

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Quotes

    There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Their Eyes Were Watching God 3225 Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1274 If you kin see de…

  • Quotes – Page 466 | Just Great DataBase

    Every moment of your life is lived for the future — you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they…

  • Quotes – Page 399 | Just Great DataBase

    أنه لمحزن دائماً أن تنظر بعيون جديدة إلى أشياء انفقنا كثيراً من الطاقة في التكيف لها F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1 She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 1 resentfully…

  • Alice in Wonderland Essays

    The Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice From a young age Charles Dodgson’s fondness for writing was already made apparent. He had made several contributions to some national publications in England as well as to two local publications in Oxford (Karoline 31). It was in one of his contributions to the latter where he used the…

  • Quotes – Page 436 | Just Great DataBase

    As a matter of fact, I’m the only dumb one in the family. J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 1 There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies,—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 1 It is…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 11 | Just Great DataBase

    I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 81 Fanny! You are killing me!””No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford. Jane Austen Mansfield Park 80 It is a truth universally…

  • Quotes – Page 264 | Just Great DataBase

    That’s what I thought, too when I was your age. If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 5 Alice started to her feet, for it…

  • Quotes – Page 477 | Just Great DataBase

    It takes brains not to make money, Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem’s signature. Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money. Joseph Heller…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 93 | Just Great DataBase

    when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood? Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 0 Ha de poseer todo…