Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
  • Take

• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• Islam is a peaceful religion.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Religion
  • Islam
  • Peaceful

• Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Respect

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • American
  • Enemy

• The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • Great
  • Violence
  • Picture

• It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Understanding
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • King
  • Company

• Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Forget

• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Character
  • Mean

• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Solitude
  • Known
  • Oneself