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Greats Quotes (page 191)

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even..."
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."Or else a fool. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, brief bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is. Algernon Charles Swinburne
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at... Philip Pullman
Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' -- sorry about that -- but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..."You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction. J. K. Rowling
Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. Graham Greene
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her..."
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in. Ursula K. Le Guin
Henry Miller quote: "Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even..."
Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer. Henry Miller
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. Mark Helprin
E. E. Cummings quote: "All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold..."
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. E. E. Cummings
You mean you're going to send the same form letter to the Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?" "Why not? These guys get so much mail they can't possibly tell the difference... I bet they don't even read the letters themselves! How could they?! The trouble with you, Charlie Brown, is you don't understand how these big organizations work! Charles M. Schulz
Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner. J. R. R. Tolkien
On principle' a man can do anything, take part in anything and himself remain inhuman and indeterminate. 'On principle' a man may interest himself in the founding of a brothel, and the same man can 'on principle' assist in the publication of a new Hymn book because it is supposed to be the great need of the times. But it would be as unjustifiable to conclude from the first fact that he was debauched as it would, perhaps, be to conclude from the second that he read or sang hymns. Soren Kierkegaard

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