Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 4

• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.974, Library of America

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• The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Mind, Harm

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.373

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• Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

  Martin E. Marty

  Depth, Hints, Hearing

  Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Buried

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

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• From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Despair, Desire

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

  Andre Gide

  Eloquence

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• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Personality, Admire

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• I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Silly, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Self, Hands, Pity

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• On all the peaks lies peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Nature, Lying

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• I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Joy, Battle

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Men, Guilt

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Originality

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• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

  Havelock Ellis

  Struggle, Essence, Together

  Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”

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• Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Cry, Planets, Liberalism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

  Robert Breault

  Divine Guidance, People, Each Day

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• Oh, one world at a time!

  Henry David Thoreau

  World

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• The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Enemy, Lord

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• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Media, Journalism, Glory

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Madmen, Died

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.424

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