Joseph Heller Quotes

Everybody is as unstable as water.

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• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Understanding
  • Choose
  • Cats

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Friends
  • Marriage
  • Spring

• Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Always
  • Craftsmanship

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politician

• A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Individual
  • Users

• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Fate

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Me
  • Weird
  • New York

• John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Leader
  • Visionary
  • Oregon

• Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Random

• Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Rose

• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Grease

• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture
  • Exercise
  • Judge

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Action

• I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Work

• It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Food
  • Water

• The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

  

  David Farr
  • World
  • History
  • Water

• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  

  F. R. Scott
  • Night
  • Space
  • Water

• Everybody is as unstable as water.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Water
  • Unstable