English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Otherness Quotes (page 173)

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head. Kurt Vonnegut
The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. Mitch Albom
I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can... John Piper
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. Kurt Vonnegut
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade...."
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. Lois McMaster Bujold
An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. Jonathan Franzen
Michael Cunningham quote: "What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the..."
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. Michael Cunningham
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level Gustave Flaubert
Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. Michael Connelly
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. Jodi Picoult
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your..."
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. E. M. Forster
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman. Steven Wright
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have..."
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Jorge Luis Borges
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects. Toni Morrison

Popular Topics

Popular Author