Quotes 41 till 60 of 159.
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726) -
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance.
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Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Farther Away: Essays (2012) 40 -
Fine words! I wonder were you stole them.
Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724) -
Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
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Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Polite Conversation (1738) -
He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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