Quotes for All
Young man, nature is not frightening, it’s people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he’s capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. … Read more
I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would … Read more
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable – but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn’t known before. Gail Sheehy
I am entirely capable. Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them? Gail Carriger
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. Gabrielle Zevin
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark … Read more
They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she’d always felt that only children are capable of everything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of … Read more
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are … Read more
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. Gabriel Zaid