Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Accidents ruled every cornor of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars
- One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), No Exit
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Speaker for the Dead
- It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
- Sir Stuart Thomas
- If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|