Quotes about many
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Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Luck in the Shadows
“There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)”
Variant: There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)
Source: Fantasy Lover
Source: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011), p.38
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
Source: House of Leaves
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
Source: The Winter Rose
Source: Interview with the Vampire
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition
Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996) http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/sp-dnc1996.html
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 15 : The Dæmon Cages
Context: Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?
When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks
Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)
“having too many ideas is not always a good thing.”
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
“The best way to know life is to love many things”
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Variant: I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Context: I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakable faith.
“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
Book I, Ch. 27
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Son of Neptune
This is attributed to Pirsig by Richard Dawkins in the Preface to The God Delusion (2006), p. 28, but cannot be found prior to that. It is obviously a paraphrase of the following from Pirsig's Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals (1991): „An insane delusion can't be held by a group at all. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion." ( books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=51i6WkGn6qYC&q=%22An+insane+delusion%22; books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=WZtRAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426)
Disputed
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Source: Murder of Crows
Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Context: And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
Source: The Creed Legacy
Talk To Me Now
Song lyrics
Variant: I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
Source: Clockwork Prince
Source: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 107
Source: The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
Variant: So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
Source: Our Souls at Night
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
Variant: The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.
Source: Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Speech in the House of Commons, also known as "The Few", made on 20 August 1940. However Churchill first made his comment, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" to General Hastings Ismay as they got into their car to leave RAF Uxbridge on 16 August 1940 after monitoring the battle from the Operations Room.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Context: The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power.
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
