Saul Bellow Quotes

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

Saul Bellow

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• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Death
  • Running
  • Fighting

• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Profit
  • Villainy

• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  

  John C. Danforth

• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

  

  Sophocles
  • Money
  • Life is
  • Gain

• Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Real
  • Plans
  • Destination

• I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Fair

• By worrying as little as possible about fame.

  

  Diogenes
  • Fame
  • Possible
  • Worrying

• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Person
  • Merits
  • Glorify

• Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • People
  • Times Square
  • Billboard

• He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Church
  • Teaching
  • Embrace

• It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Children
  • Support

• What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Misery
  • Joys
  • Long Life

• Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Misery
  • Spokesman
  • Helper

• Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Misery