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Timely Quotes (page 727)

Haruki Murakami quote: "Tengo made a point of asking people how old they were at the..."
Tengo made a point of asking people how old they were at the time of their first memory. Haruki Murakami
I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant. Oliver Goldsmith
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant,..."
It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too. Lois McMaster Bujold
We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow out of self interest. It is pleasanter to dream of those times of dedication, sacrifice, and heroism that used to be, and that have left honorable traces upon the earth. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes. Ivan Turgenev
Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the ingallible resource and indispenable enternainment for his village during a whole year. Charles Dickens
...as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time.... Daniel Defoe
Bram Stoker quote: "I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew..."
I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power. Bram Stoker
I haven't figured out a rainbow yet, They come so quickly and leave so soon. I never have enough time to capture them. Just a bit of blue here or purple there. And then they fade away again. Back into the air. Suzanne Collins
[F]or though a very few hours spent in hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is even made, till it has been made at least twenty times over. Jane Austen
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. Carl Sagan
In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter. Eliphas Levi
We went there to grope for our happiness, which all the world was threatening with the utmost ferocity. We were ashamed of wanting what we wanted, but something had to be done about it all the same. Love is harder to give up than life. In this world we spend our time killing or adoring, or both together. "I hate you! I adore you!" We keep going, we fuel and refuel, we pass on our life to a biped of the next century, with frenzy, at any cost, as if it were the greatest of pleasures to... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go. Ann Landers
At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling to one another and scurrying toward my head, to some place under the top of my skull, where they would build new nests. There they would proliferate and eat out my thoughts, one after another, until I would become as empty as the shell of a pumpkin from which all the fruit has been scraped out. Jerzy Kosinski

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