Quotes about many page 23
“The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
Source: Political Writings
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dream Warrior
“Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.”
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) French writer
“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
Stanislav Grof (1931) Czech pychiatrist
Source: The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
“So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?”
Hilary Mantel book An Experiment in Love
Source: An Experiment in Love
“In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”
Charlie Chaplin book My Autobiography
Source: My Autobiography
“Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that's the problem.”
Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Mary Roach book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: Men, Women And Dogs
“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.”
Christopher Moore book Practical Demonkeeping
Source: Practical Demonkeeping
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad,. Northern women development. [Nigeria]. p, 351. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ
Disputed
Source: This occurs in the film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), based upon the novel by Kazantzakis, but has not been located in the novel itself.
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 539, spoken by Will
reference to quote from Clockwork Angel
Context: I recall what you said to me once, that words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.
“Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”
Joseph O`Connor (1916–2001) Anglo-Irish actor and playwright
Source: Star of the Sea
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
“How many roads must a man walk down?”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Pleasure
Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer
Attributed
“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Diary
Variant: People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Source: Diary
Laura Ruby American writer
Source: Bone Gap
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Variant: There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.
Context: The shape of my life today starts with a family. I have a husband, five children and a home just beyond the suburbs of New York. I have also a craft, writing, and therefore work I want to pursue. The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony. I am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and the inward man be at one." I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
Context: What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. "Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?"
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim