Charles Scribner Jr Famous Quotes
"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life."
"Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language."
Charles Scribner Jr Quotations
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand."
Aristophanes
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Joan Baez
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
Richard Milhous Nixon
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry
Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce
"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go."
Ni matullah Wali
"You can't make someone love you, and while you try, you lose the people who really care."
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