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:

The Who Quotes (page 163)

John Steinbeck quote: "The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist..."
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. John Steinbeck
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. Richard Dawkins
Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them. Philip Roth
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?"
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? Rainer Maria Rilke
Joseph Heller quote: "Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of..."
Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear? Joseph Heller
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful. George Santayana
Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust. Siegfried Sassoon
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. Spider Robinson
Maya Angelou quote: "The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them. Maya Angelou
The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity." Marilyn Manson
The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already. Chuck Palahniuk
Albert Camus quote: "The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As..."
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. Albert Camus
Lao Tzu quote: "The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know."
The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know. Lao Tzu
Who is Alice?" asked mother."Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger Russell Hoban
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Elizabeth Gilbert

Popular Topics

Popular Author