Category: Quotes

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

    Para ella, el era el ultimo hombre; para él, ella parecía ser la única mujer Pride and Prejudice 0 Oh! my dear Mr. Bennet,” as she entered the room, “we have had a most delightful evening, a most excellent Pride and Prejudice 0 The rector of a parish has much to do.—In the first place,…

  • Quotes – Page 545 | Just Great DataBase

    Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. “Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno” mi disse “ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 0 But it was…

  • Quotes – Page 219 | Just Great DataBase

    I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age . sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I rally do – but people never notice it . people never notice anything. J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 9 You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty…

  • Quotes – Page 451 | Just Great DataBase

    Solitude was corrupting me…My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 1 The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’ When Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 1 The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these,…

  • The Alchemist Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.”Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams. The Alchemist…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 65 | Just Great DataBase

    Когда лошадь возвращается с поля в стойло, жизнь в стойле не угасает, там слышно дыхание, там тепло, под ногами ее шуршит солома, на зубах похрустывает сено, лошадь поводит ушами, смотрит. В стойло возвращается жизнь, там пахнет ее теплом. Но когда мотор трактора прекращает работу, трактор становится мертвым, как тот металл, из которого он сделан. Тепло…

  • Things Fall Apart Quotes

    The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 28 | Just Great DataBase

    I’ll be ever’where–wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there..An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses the build–why I’ll be there. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 3 Our species…

  • Quotes – Page 68 | Just Great DataBase

    There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud, leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their livesare bound in shallows and in miseries William Shakespeare Julius Caesar 119 No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would…

  • Quotes – Page 354 | Just Great DataBase

    I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take…