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.
John Cheever
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.
Ian Mcewan
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
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.
E. F. Benson
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.
Callie Khouri
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
Macaulay Culkin
I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
Sam Waterston
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
Warren Farrell
No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
Kate Brown
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.
John Cheever
