Produce Quotes - Page 8

• Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Praying, Explanation, Improbable

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.14

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Wall, Book, Horizon

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “10 People Every Christian Should Know (Ebook Shorts)”, p.63, Baker Books

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Sorry, Males, Bills

  4 Copy quote

• When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Reflection, Hands

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Ideas, Individuality

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

  Patti Smith

  Loss, Desire, Emeralds

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.279, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Years, Omnipotence

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.185, Psychology Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

  Moderata Fonte

  White, Knowing, Envy

  6 Copy quote

• although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

  Erich Segal

  Brain, Location, Rage

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.218, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Worry, Effort

  7 Copy quote

• Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Book, Yesterday

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.109, Atlantic Books Ltd

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Horse, Communication, Progress

  4 Copy quote

• No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

  Lorrie Moore

  Flower, Wind, Sea

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.95, Faber & Faber

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  71 Copy quote

• In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Games, Loving Nature

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

  Graham Greene

  Passion, Jealous, Hatred

  The End of the Affair ch. 3 (1951)

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

  Simone Weil

  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Winter, Giving

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Peace, Believe, Frustration

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.112, Wizards of the Coast

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.13, New Line Publishing

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

  Keith Ablow

  Self, Sometimes, Insight

  8 Copy quote

• He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Age, Bottles

  38 Copy quote

• The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Christian, Lost Love, Fairy Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hands, Tea, Refreshments

  "Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source