Quotes of: Wright Keyword

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

Terra Incognita

If you’d rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won’t hate you for more than a day. Maybe two.

The One You Want

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

… the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.

Pig's Foot

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Foundations of Faith)

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

The Prize

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Prodigy

The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Prodigy

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.

Prodigy

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Prodigy

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Philosophy of Science

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

The Pursuit Of Simplicity

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

The Privilege of Being a Woman

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Q & A

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Q & A

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Q & A

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

Q & A

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918