Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no […]
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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. Great short quote and quotation by: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ,
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. Great short quote and quotation by: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ,
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. Great short quote and quotation by: L. M. Boyd ,
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Winston Churchill , British politician (1874 – 1965)
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Camus, The Fall , French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. Great short quote and quotation by: George Sarton, History of Science ,
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. Great short quote and quotation by: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986 , US science fiction author
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them. Great short quote and quotation by: J. Paul Getty , US oil industrialist (1892 – 1976)
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. Great short quote and quotation by: Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial , US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 – 1849)
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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. Great short quote and quotation by: Carl Sandburg , US biographer & poet (1878 – 1967)
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set. Great short quote and quotation by: Harriet Van Horne. ,
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