Quotes of: Tolstoy Keyword

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

Pearl Cleage

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Benjamin Spock

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Emily Greene Balch

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

E. W. Howe

En nuestra existencia hay una única coincidencia que nos une y, por un momento, nuestros corazones laten como si fueran uno.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Course in General Linguistics

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

First Drop of Crimson

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

The Buddha in the Attic

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the be...

Said Nursi

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu

Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

The Spellmans Strike Again

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985

Is it beautiful?” “Really weird. But don’t get hung up on the angels. They’re mostly assholes.

Something More Than Night

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Saints at the River

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

From the Top

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

Twilight Watch