E. M. Forster Quotes

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E. M. Forster

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• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

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• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

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• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

  

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

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• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

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• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

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• I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.

  

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• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

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• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

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• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

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• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

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• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

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• Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can.

  

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• Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

  

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• youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

  

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• When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking