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Robert Frost11 quotes
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost · 1916Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in. — Robert Frost · 1914And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I have a lovers quarrel with the world. — Robert Frost · 1941Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. — Robert Frost · 1942I have been one acquainted with the night. — Robert Frost · 1928Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain
Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove. — Robert Frost · 1923All 11 quotes →Jack London6 quotes
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. — Jack London · 1916I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. — Jack London · 1916There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. — Jack London · 1903He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars. — Jack London · 1903A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. — Jack London · 1902A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London · 1907Anne Lamott3 quotes
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. — Anne Lamott · 1994Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott · 1994Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes-including you. — Anne Lamott · 2017Robert McNamara3 quotes
We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the priniples and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribbly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. — Robert McNamara · 1995We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. I don't know any military commander, who is honest, who would say he has not made a mistake. There's a wonderful phrase: "the fog of war." What "the fog of war" means is: war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily. — Robert McNamara · 2003Military force—especially when wielded by an outside power—just cannot bring order in a country that cannot govern itself. — Robert McNamara · 1995Naomi Wolf2 quotes
What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. — Naomi Wolf · 1990"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. — Naomi Wolf · 1990Pauline Kael2 quotes
I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them. — Pauline Kael · 1972The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. — Pauline Kael · 1968Clifford Geertz1 quote
There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture. — Clifford Geertz · 1973Dale Russell1 quote
Dinosaurs are a touchstone that separates the mentality of children from that of adults. — Dale Russell · 1989Luis Walter Alvarez1 quote
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez · 1967Ming-Dao Deng1 quote
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. — Ming-Dao Deng · 1996OJ Simpson1 quote
Absolutely, 100% not guilty. — OJ Simpson · 1994William Thomas Cummings1 quote
There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943