Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • You
  • Acting
  • Story

• I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • True
  • Science

• How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Rest
  • Poverty

• I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Age
  • Energy

• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Family

• Growing up, I didn't just watch 'The Cosby Show.' I watched 'Growing Pains' and 'Family Ties,' too.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Up
  • Education

• When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Life
  • School
  • She

• I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking

  

  Mark Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Happy

• Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

  

  Martin Luther
  • People
  • Mouths
  • Fig-leaf

• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  

  Pete Stark
  • War
  • City
  • Smart

• The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • War
  • Jesus
  • Civil