Quotes of: Collected Keyword

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Collected Fiction

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I’m here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.

Collective Memory

But glad to have sat under Thunder and rain with you, And grateful too For sunlight on the garden.

Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -

Collected Poems

Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.

Collected Poems

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Collected Poems

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Collected Poems

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

The Comeback Season

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Common Sense

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Collected Works

You have really nice teeth,” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.

Everyday Psychopaths

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

The Blind Assassin

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Bricks could be used like trophies. And if we give them to everyone, just for participating, then collectively we could build a big House of Emptiness. 

Blanket

A brick could be used to communicate with the dead. I just spoke to Stalin, and he’s very pleased with the way America’s progressing, collectively, as a country. 

Brick

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.

Bountiful Creek: a legendary love story