Ernest Hemingway Quotes

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Ernest Hemingway

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• There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Mind

• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life

• My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

  

  Matt Czuchry
  • Good
  • Wife

• My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Dad

• If you're trying to impress a girl, go with something that doesn't look like you're trying to impress, but you should still make an effort. It goes back to what you're comfortable with. Look like you're there with interest.

  

  Matthew Daddario
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Effort

• The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Political
  • Knowledge

• Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Action

• I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People
  • Different

• If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Business
  • Control
  • Lost

• She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Smile
  • Promise
  • Profound

• Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Remember
  • I Can
  • Shots

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Positive

• It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Truth

• I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Natural

• In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Face
  • Flu

• You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.

  

  David Farrier
  • People
  • Minutes
  • Documentary

• The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Time
  • Book
  • Free

• I wonder why I write about these things. As if I didn't know them! Why do I tell myself in writing what I already so well know? Don't I know about the mountain, and the brimming cup of blue light? It is because, I suppose, it's lonely to stay inside oneself. One has to come out and talk. And if there is no one to talk to one imagines someone, as though one were writing a letter to somebody who loves one, and who will want to know, with the sweet eagerness and solicitude of love, what one does and what the place one is in looks like. It makes one feel less lonely to think like this,—to write it down, as if to one's friend who cares. For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Forgiving