
“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”
Source: The Goldfinch
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”
Source: The Goldfinch
Gordon Brown says quitting EU would not be British https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36263256 BBC News (11 May 2016)
Post premiership
“None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.”
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 183
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Variant: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Source: Emerson's Essays
Context: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
Captain Roadstrum to Bjorn, on planet Valhal, also known as Lamos, in Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: I do not understand your custom in this, but we do not intend to fight until all of us are dead. We desire very much that none of us be dead. And we will fight till all of you are dead only if it is absolutely necessary.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 95.