“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Rien n'est plus contraire à la religion et au clergé qu'une tête sensée et raisonnable. — Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, Théologie portative, ou Dictionnaire abrégé de la religion chrétienne (1768): Folie
Misattributed
“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to James McHenry (10 August 1798)
1790s
“At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.”
Bob Dole (1923) American politician
About his wife, Elizabeth Dole, reported in William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician (2003), p. 125.
“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”
Charles Dickens book Our Mutual Friend
Bk. I, Ch. 55
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
“Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Russian and Soviet writer
The I.V.Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal (1934)
“France has done more for even English history than England has.”
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist
John Stuart Mill. Michelet.On the writing of English history. Complete Works Vol 20. Page 221.http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/pdf/Mill_0223-20_EBk_v7.0.pdf
“The monetary system we have inherited is more than 2,000 years old.”
Margrit Kennedy (1939–2013) German architect
Source: Interest and Inflation Free Money (1995), Chapter Four, Some lessons From History, p. 89
“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.”
Mary Renault book The Bull from the Sea
The Bull from the Sea (1962)
“Two things greater
Than all things are;
And the first is love
And the second is war.”
Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer
From Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of the King's Jest; quoted in the opening of Rival Caesars
Misattributed
“The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
PENN Address (2004)
“[…] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.”
Michael Nutter (1957) American mayor
At an address on February, 2013 at the Community College of Philadelphia, City Journal, Spring 2013, vol. 23, no. 2 http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_2_michael-nutter.html
“Oh, but it is high and very dangerous!
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.”
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
"Hard Roads In Shu" https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hard-roads-in-shu/ (蜀道难)
“The past is… much more uncertain—or even falsely reported—than is usually recognized.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935) Japanese author
p 92
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)