Novelists Quotes - Page 19

• Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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• The human heart is bigger than the world.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Heart, Generosity, World

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.225, University of Washington Press

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• Trust is the first step to love.

  Munshi Premchand

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

  John William De Forest

  Inspirational, Failure, Temptation

  John William De Forest (1859). “Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts”, p.41

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• Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.

  James Hadley Chase

  Relationship, Sex, Women

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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Courage, Determination, Inspiration

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• Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

  Ernesto Sabato

  Life, Stars, Desert

  Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Change, Patience, Learning

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• America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!

  Carlos Bulosan

  Country, Jobs, Book

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.22, University of Washington Press

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• It is your human environment that makes climate

  Mark Twain

  People, Humanity, Climate

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

  Chester Himes

  Life, Country, White

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• The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Poetry, Aristocracy, Serious

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Choices, Contradictory, Contrary

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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• Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Famous Women, Wealth

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

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• I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Time, Effectiveness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.551, Hamilton Books

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• It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

  Johnny Cash

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

  Will Shetterly

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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• We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  War, Pride, Army

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• Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Life, Dog, Pet

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• If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Heart, Kentucky

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