Tropisms Sarraute Quotes

#1. Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

Octavio Paz

#2. Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that he had seen in the American church seemed to be in the churches where there were a present reality and a past history of suffering.

Eric Metaxas

#3. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.

Anne Frank

#4. To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery

Sunday Adelaja

#5. All anything takes, really, is confidence.

Rachel Ward

#6. Well, I would definitely give up performing ... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

Jennifer Saunders

#7. He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

George Saunders

#8. The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings

Kate Morton

#9. No matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.

Haruki Murakami

#10. It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#11. There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Jodi Picoult

#12. The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Michael Mandelbaum

#13. You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

H.G.Wells

#14. I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

Nathalie Sarraute