1941

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

1941

★ 8.8

Personal journal

Anais Nin

1941

★ 7.0

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... Everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... Anywhere in the world.

1941

★ 6.9

For when the One Great Scorer Comes to mark against your name, He writes-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

1941

★ 6.9

The stuff that dreams are made of.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 6.4

Letter

Submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing... Measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question.

Hermann Goring

1941

★ 6.0

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Alfred North Whitehead

1941

★ 5.3

Speech

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941 · 1941

★ 5.3

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941 · 1941

★ 5.3

And 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

The Lesson for Today · 1941

★ 5.1

Autobiography and memoir

One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

Colette

1941

★ 4.4

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

1941

★ 4.4

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 3.9

All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 3.9

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

Third Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1941

★ 3.7

Personal journal

Anais Nin

1941

★ 3.6

War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual. It is only because they are aware of this that men will die on the field of battle.

George Orwell

1941

★ 3.6

The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT.

Ogden Nash

1941

★ 3.6

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... A total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Hermann Goring

1941

★ 3.6

Radio broadcast

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

1941

★ 3.6

I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Jedediah Leland

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 3.6

Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Mr. Bernstein

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

Erich Fromm

1941

★ 3.5

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

1941

★ 3.5

Essay

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

1941

★ 3.5

I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice.

Kasper Gutman

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 3.5

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Howell Forgy

1941

★ 3.5

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

William Cuppy

1941

★ 3.5

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

1941

★ 3.4

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie...A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

George Orwell

1941

★ 2.8

You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Kane

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 2.1

The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons... A family with the wrong members in control.

1941

★ 2.0

Essay

George Orwell

1941

★ 1.9

The sea is the land's edge also, the granite Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses It hints of earlier and other creation: The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone; The pools where it offers to our curiosity The more delicate algae and the sea anemone. It tosses up our losses, the torn seine, The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar And the gear of foreigh dead men. The sea has many voices.

T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets · 1941

★ 1.9

Interview

Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died.

Henri Matisse

1941

★ 1.9

Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money.

Mr. Bernstein

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 1.9

In the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.

Kasper Gutman

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 1.9