John Cheever Quotes
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
Quotes to Explore
-
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
-
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
-
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
-
I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
-
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
-
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
-
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
-
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
-
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
-
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
-
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
-
I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
-
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
-
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
-
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
-
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
-
Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer’s ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clowns.
-
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
-
I wouldn't know how to retire.
-
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
-
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
