Jules Verne Quotes

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

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• Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Question
  • Books
  • Wonderful

• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • History
  • Politics

• I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • Men
  • Money

• I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • May
  • Political

• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Rich
  • Eggs

• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Dear
  • Plato

• In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Democracy
  • Orators
  • Demagogs

• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  

  Epictetus
  • Mind
  • Exercise
  • Functions

• Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

  

  Confucius
  • Use
  • Kill
  • Mosquito

• I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Expectation
  • Influenced
  • Promotion

• There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

  

  William Bolcom
  • Book
  • Nice
  • Honor

• For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Life
  • Value
  • Atmosphere

• His heart skidded like a dirt bike on black ice as he watched her disappear.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Heart
  • Disappear
  • Watched

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Powers

• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  

  Jane Austen
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Novel

• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Powers
  • Instincts
  • Captain Nemo