Quotes - Livan Davidson (Hialeah, FL) Showing 1-30 of 49

#1

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

#2

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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#3

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#4

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

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#5

“A man without words is a man without thought.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: wisdom

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#6

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance

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#7

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#8

“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, man

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#9

“Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: blame, excuses, family

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#10

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

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#11

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

tags: beowulf, beowulf-seamus-heaney, coast-guard

124 likes

#12

“Fate will unwind as it must!”
― Burton Raffel, Beowulf

tags: fate

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#13

“I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me”
― Burton Raffel, Beowulf

tags: beowulf, fear, fearless

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#14

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#15

“This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#16

“Everyone gets well if he waits around.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#17

“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#18

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#19

“That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: heart, judgement, lack-of-judgement

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#20

“Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#21

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#22

“I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed either.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: argh

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#23

“Some people exude their futures, good or bad.”
― John Steinbeckbeck, East of Eden

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#24

“Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#25

“How do I know?” said Cal. “Am I supposed to look after him?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#26

“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: courage, forbearance, virtue

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#27

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: vice

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#28

“The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: amazing-writing, dark, my-kind-of-book, twisted

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#29

“He always tell what it will be like someday."
"Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: body, memory, mind, time

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#30

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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