Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.
Daniel Mendelsohn
Quotes to Explore
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
J. Donald Walters
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter
When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
Dane Cook
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
Wade Boggs
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
Dana Carvey
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
C. Northcote Parkinson
It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.
Pat Sajak
'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
Kate Chopin
Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
Condoleezza Rice
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.
Pete Sampras
There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.
Thomas Hardy
I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
Ciara
But though that place I never gain,
Herein lies comfort for my pain:
I will be worthy of it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.
Adolf Hitler
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.
Daniel Mendelsohn
