Lionel Trilling Famous Quotes
"Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty."
Lionel Trilling Quotations
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
"Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts."
Virgil
"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so."
H Jackson Brown Jr
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward."
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit-Fascist pig this and that-but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.
John Gargin
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
Ezra Loomis Pound
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger