Quotes - Anton (anton_gorodetsky) (Moscow, Russian Federation) Showing 1-30 of 131

#1

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#2

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#3

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#4

“Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: religion

156 likes

#5

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

3543 likes

#6

“There are no problems, only solutions.”
― John Lennon

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#7

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

7615 likes

#8

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1754 likes

#9

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

1720 likes

#10

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence

2625 likes

#11

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

1876 likes

#12

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3589 likes

#13

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

1860 likes

#14

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

2282 likes

#15

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

2060 likes

#16

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

tags: curiosity, inspirational

1203 likes

#17

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

3641 likes

#18

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

tags: folly, foolishness, luck, merits, nero-wolfe, vainer, vainity, wisdom, wise

571 likes

#19

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

1626 likes

#20

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2475 likes

#21

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: inspirational, life

1661 likes

#22

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

1840 likes

#23

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

2587 likes

#24

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

tags: hunger

1372 likes

#25