1948 · Skopia

Showing 35 quotes from 1948

Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing.

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

1948

★ 6.0

Lecture

A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Vladimir Nabokov

1948

★ 5.4

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

Alfred Kinsey

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male · 1948

★ 5.2

Philosophical literature

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.

Bertrand Russell

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits · 1948

★ 4.5

Psychological thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological thriller · Thriller

I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be an art, too. The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create.

Brandon

Rope · 1948

★ 4.4

Film · Western (film) · Western

Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya?

Fred C. Dobbs

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.8

Novel

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter · 1948

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

I never liked seein' strangers, guess it's cause no stranger ever good news to me.

Walter Brennan

Red River · 1948

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls.

Howard

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

Howard

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

1948

★ 3.5

Short story

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J.D. Salinger

1948

★ 3.5

Play

There is love, of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

1948

★ 3.5

Play

You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

1948

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Leo Strauss

1948

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun—a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

Cherry Valance

Red River · 1948

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.

Cherry Valance

Red River · 1948

★ 3.5

Psychological thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological thriller · Thriller

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Brandon

Rope · 1948

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

Gold Hat

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened.

Curtin

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.5

Political literature

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

1948

★ 3.5

Poem · War poetry

In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school- Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."

Randall Jarrell

1948

★ 3.4

Essay

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

1948

★ 3.4

Essay

Words…are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is Literature? · 1948

★ 2.9

The Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government of the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.

Harry Truman

1948

★ 2.7

Psychological thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Psychological thriller · Thriller

It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark.

Brandon

Rope · 1948

★ 2.7

Film · Western (film) · Western

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen.

Thomas Dunson

Red River · 1948

★ 2.1

Novel

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter · 1948

★ 2.0

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

1948

★ 2.0

Poem

I did not come here to solve anything. I came to sing, And for you to sing with me.

Pablo Neruda

1948

★ 2.0

Scientific literature

Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.

Albert Einstein

1948

★ 2.0

Novel

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

1948

★ 1.9

Scientific literature

The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

1948

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

1948

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

1948

★ 0.9