Literary Pillars Quotes

#1. Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time ... .. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief."
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

William H Gass

#2. Do you ever feel like you've been waiting your entire life for a specific moment when it'll all make sense?

Heather Hildenbrand

#3. CONTENTS Endpaper Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Acknowledgments Prologue: To Question Part One: Alight 1. Santhid 2. Bridge Four

Brandon Sanderson

#4. We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living.

James Jean-Pierre

#5. We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.

Jack Dangermond

#6. Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#8. What you put up with you end up with.

Mastin Kipp

#9. And you don't matter to me, table scrap. (Varyk)
That feeling is entirely mutual, bear bait. Hell, I don't even acknowledge you as being here. So get out and take your trash with you. (Dev)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

Emme Rollins

#11. We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

John L. Phillips

#12. I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

Anthony Hopkins

#13. There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#14. You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Paul Weller

#15. You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

Gael Garcia Bernal