James Oliver Curwood Quotes

#1. What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Joshua Foer

#2. Nature is my religion. And my desire ... my ambition ... the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it ... if I can only get the two acquainted.

James Oliver Curwood

#3. Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

Duncan Hines

#4. To steal book seems like stealing the soul out of someone.

James Oliver Curwood

#5. In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

James Oliver Curwood

#6. And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Morgan Freeman

#7. The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Albert Camus

#8. Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

James Oliver Curwood

#9. The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

James Oliver Curwood

#10. When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

Andrew Cohen

#11. You can put all your effort in trying to make someone happy ... but there comes a time when we become tired of trying to fill a bucket that is leaking from the inside.

Steve Maraboli