John Steinbeck Quotes

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

John Steinbeck

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Science
  • Light
  • Reading

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Personality

• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Fashion

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Choices
  • Look

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Money
  • Power
  • Thought

• I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

  

  Jason Derulo
  • World
  • Different

• Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Acting
  • Identity
  • Habit

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Women
  • She

• A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Hope
  • Hurt