Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 433 | Just Great DataBase

    Chcel som ti ukázať, čo je opravdivá odvaha, a nie ťa utvrdiť v presvedčení, že odvaha znamená človeka s puškou v ruke. Odvaha je: pustiť sa do boja, aj keď vopred vieš, že si porazený, a napriek tomu vytrvať v boji až do konca. Zriedka zvíťazíš, ale niekedy sa ti to podarí. Harper Lee To…

  • Quotes – Page 91 | Just Great DataBase

    How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. By making him suffer, he said.Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing…

  • Quotes – Page 151 | Just Great DataBase

    Still, obviously, one can’t be sensible all the time. Albert Camus The Stranger 24 The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on…

  • Brave New World Quotes

    Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Brave New World 4401 But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Brave New World 2878 Actual happiness always…

  • Quotes – Page 549 | Just Great DataBase

    You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 If I may be permitted an editorial aside, allow me to say that in my opinion we must be cautious about passing moral judgment upon the Gileadean. Surely we have learned by now that such…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 25 | Just Great DataBase

    Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 33 At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies. William Shakespeare The Tempest Revenge 33 I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 50 | Just Great DataBase

    difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I John Steinbeck East of Eden…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 109 | Just Great DataBase

    ¡Ah, por fin conmigo! Muere luego y vive antes; revive con besos. Si tal poder tuvieran, yo mis labios gastaría besando. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra 0 . . . I will not be sworn, but love may trans-form me to an oyster, but, I’ll take my oath on it, till hehave made an oyster…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 62 | Just Great DataBase

    Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 El cielo estaba encapotado y las calles más pequeñas se hallaban anegadas de sucia niebla, húmeda y glacial, cuyas partículas más pesadas descendían en forma de una lluvia de átomos de hollín, como si,…

  • Quotes – Page 532 | Just Great DataBase

    My flower is somewhere out there… Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince 0 There are a great many buttocks in this room. I am no longer used to them. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get. We want you to be…