Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 4570.
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
Source: Use of Weapons (1990) 303 -
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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