“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”
Ambeth R. Ocampo book Rizal Without the Overcoat
Source: Rizal Without the Overcoat
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Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer
"The Epigrams of Lusin"
Variant: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
“For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Source: Can Man Live Without God
Wilson Rawls book Where the Red Fern Grows
Source: Where the Red Fern Grows
“Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”
XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“There are as many sorts of women as there are women.”
Murasaki Shikibu book The Tale of Genji
Source: The Tale of Genji
Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Source: The Exploration of Space
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
James Madison Federalist Papers
Federalist No. 47 (30 January 1788) Federalist (Dawson)/46 Full text at Wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The <br class="br">Source: 1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788) <br class="br">Context: One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. In the structure of the Fœderal Government, no regard, it is said, seems to have been paid to this essential precaution in favor of liberty. The several departments of power are distributed and blended in such a manner, as at once to destroy all symmetry and beauty of form, and to expose some of the essential parts of the edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts.<br>No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."
--Charlie Gordan”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
“There are many things in life that cannot be explained.”
Anthony Horowitz book Nightrise
Source: Nightrise
“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”
Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory
Source: My Name Is Memory
Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways
Source: House of Many Ways
Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh
Source: The Tao of Pooh
William Styron book Darkness Visible
Source: Darkness Visible (1990), III
Context: This general unawareness of what depression is really like was apparent most recently in the matter of Primo Levi, the remarkable Italian writer and survivor of Auschwitz who, at the age of sixty-seven, hurled himself down a stairwell in Turin in 1987. Since my own involvement with the illness, I had been more than ordinarily interested in Levi’s death, and so, late in 1988, when I read an account in The New York Times about a symposium on the writer and his work held at New York University, I was fascinated but, finally, appalled. For, according to the article, many of the participants, worldly writers and scholars, seemed mystified by Levi’s suicide, mystified and disappointed. It was as if this man whom they had all so greatly admired, and who had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis — a man of exemplary resilience and courage — had by his suicide demonstrated a frailty, a crumbling of character they were loath to accept. In the face of a terrible absolute — self-destruction — their reaction was helplessness and (the reader could not avoid it) a touch of shame.
My annoyance over all this was so intense that I was prompted to write a short piece for the op-ed page of the Times. The argument I put forth was fairly straightforward: the pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. Through the healing process of time — and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases — most people survive depression, which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.
J. Maarten Troost (1969) American writer
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
for the lack of it.' Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.51
Source: Giovanni's Room (1956)
“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Source: And Then There Were None: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.