Top 97 Nathanael Quotes
#1. The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27
John Ferling
#2. I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
#3. Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
Nathanael Emmons
#4. It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.
Nathanael West
#5. Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.
Nathanael Emmons
#6. Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
Nathanael West
#7. The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
Nathanael Howe
#8. Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
Nathanael West
#9. Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.
Nathanael West
#10. I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
Nathanael Greene
#11. He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.
Nathanael West
#13. Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice
Nathanael Kanyinga
#14. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
Nathanael Emmons
#15. If human beings are the most intelligent creatures on earth, why is it that the other less intelligent creatures realise themselves in their group of spieces that they are the same despite the difference in colour or condition, while humam beings don't
Nathanael Kanyinga
#16. When you are able to affix yourself somehow, to bridge the abyss with a relationship with another creature of any sort, it's easier to make the case that there is some way in which the whole of creation matters, that it has, if not a purpose, at least an invigorating vitality.
Nathanael Johnson
#17. But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness.
Nathanael West
#18. Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
Nathanael Emmons
#19. America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
Nathanael Greene
#20. What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock
Nathanael West
#21. But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
Nathanael West
#22. The first step is to stop thinking of nature as something far away that we must save from someone else and start seeing it all around us. The first step is to open our eyes to the existence of nature in our daily lives.
Nathanael Johnson
#23. If your
hands are tied towards
anyone who's in need of
a helping hand, let your
tangue also be tied
Nathanael Kanyinga
#25. Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
Nathanael West
#26. The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
Nathanael Emmons
#27. Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
Nathanael Emmons
#28. I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathanael Emmons
#29. She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.
Nathanael West
#30. There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
Nathanael Emmons
#32. The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Nathanael Emmons
#34. Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
Nathanael West
#35. Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.
Nathanael Emmons
#36. What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.
Nathanael West
#38. Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
Nathanael West
#39. Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
Nathanael West
#41. It is not always that the majority are right in a vote of a certain event. If that certain event was with no doubt acceptable to human nature then the minority would not exist.
Nathanael Kanyinga
#42. It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
Nathanael West
#43. The more you fail is the more you get closer to success because you lessen your chances of failing by not only confronting wrong paths but also eliminating them from the scenario, thus remaining with the right ones
Nathanael Kanyinga
#44. These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
Nathanael Emmons
#46. In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
Nathanael Emmons
#47. He knew now what this thing was - hysteria, a snake whose scales are tiny mirrors in which the dead world takes on a semblance of life. And how dead the world is ... a world of doorknobs. He wondered if hysteria were really too steep a price to pay for bringing it to life.
Nathanael West
#48. It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.
Nathanael West
#49. He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
Nathanael West
#50. Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
Nathanael West
#51. At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.
Nathanael West
#52. Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
Nathanael Emmons
#53. How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Nathanael Emmons
#54. If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.
Nathanael West
#55. Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.
Nathanael West
#56. Humanity ... I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards ...
Nathanael West
#58. You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
Nathanael Emmons
#59. Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty
Nathanael Emmons
#60. Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.
Nathanael West
#61. We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.
Nathanael West
#63. It was on this trip that Faye acquired a new suitor by the name of Homer Simpson.
Nathanael West
#64. The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
Nathanael Kanyinga
#65. You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.
Nathanael West
#67. To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.
Nathanael Greene
#68. Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first
Nathanael Kanyinga
#69. The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.
Nathanael West
#70. Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
Nathanael West
#71. He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.
Nathanael West
#72. He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.
Nathanael West
#73. The difference between your dreams and the reality is you control your dreams while reality control you. Dreams let you choose, thus always makes you happy while reality choose for you.
Nathanael Kanyinga
#74. Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.
Nathanael Emmons
#75. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies.
Nathanael West
#76. Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
#77. Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West
#78. A button machine makes buttons, no matter what the power used, foot, steam or electricity. They, no matter what the motivating force, death, love or God, made jokes.
Nathanael West
#79. To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is, I think, the key to love.
Nathanael Johnson
#80. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
Nathanael West
#82. He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.
Nathanael West
#83. One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
Nathanael Emmons
#84. His heart was a rose and in his skull another rose bloomed.
The room was full of grace. A sweet, clean grace, not washed clean, but clean as the innersides of the inner petals of a newly forced rosebud.
Nathanael West
#85. We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
Nathanael Greene
#86. Everyone have big dreams they would want to see come alive, but not everyone has the strength to awaken the dreams to true life
Nathanael Kanyinga
#87. In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.
Nathanael West
#88. Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.
Nathanael Emmons
#89. No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.
Nathanael West
#90. I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people
Nathanael Kanyinga
#91. Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.
Nathanael West
#92. He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.
Nathanael West
#93. His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.
Nathanael West
#94. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
Nathanael West
#95. Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.
Nathanael Greene
#97. Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
Nathanael Emmons
