Catcher In The Rye Thematic Quotes

#1. The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

Chelsey Philpot

#2. A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Madame De Stael

#3. IT OCCURS TO me that we are entering an era in which the human ear will cease to distinguish sounds. Today I barely heard the drillers. What other things am I not hearing?

Philipp Meyer

#4. I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

James S.A. Corey

#5. We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Roger Mahony

#6. Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Sydney J. Harris

#7. There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

Sylvia Earle

#8. There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Geoff Rickly

#11. System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

George Washington

#12. Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

Andy Rooney

#13. The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD

Jerry Bridges

#14. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Sarah Dessen