Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes

#1. Brian's voice caught in his throat. "You still want me?" "I want you. I need you. I love you. Come to me." It

Brad Vance

#2. sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#3. Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,

Karl Barth

#4. ...that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because someone made a decision to pull a trigger, to flip a switch, to close a cattle door, to hide, to betray.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#5. The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Douglas Kennedy

#6. The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#7. The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.

Daniel Pinkwater

#8. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'

Fred DeLuca

#9. Taste is a mystery.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#10. To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#11. To be alive is to have a story to tell.

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#12. A spouse is not a destination but a fellow traveler.

Sadghuru

#13. Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Ilona Andrews

#14. At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#15. The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#17. the Holocaust wasn't something that simply happened, but is an event that's still happening.)

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#18. The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

Patrick David Wall

#19. ...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

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#20. I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

Kathryn Prescott

#21. How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#23. We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves ... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

Jan De Bont

#24. Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#25. It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

#26. Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

Roberto Assagioli

#27. The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Daniel Mendelsohn