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Virginia Woolf

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VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Our hearts go out to his family and friends. He will be deeply missed by all who have known him and ...
CHRIS CARTER Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When ...
VICTORIA GLENDINNING When Bonaparte<...
THOMAS CLIO RICKMAN Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
OSCAR WILDE Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four ...
WILLIE SAVANNAH I can see him. With vine leaves in his hair.
HENRIK IBSEN ...and his analysis pro...
W.W. ROUSE BALL I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, b...
MATTHEW HENRY God created woman from the side of man. Not from his head to be above him, nor from his feet to be t...
UNKNOWN Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under hi...
ANON. For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idea...
ALEX BERENSON And in the happy no-time of his sleeping/ Death took him by the heart.
WILFRED OWEN Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or p...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him ...
C. NEIL STRAIT When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
PROVERB When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart
RUSSIAN PROVERB If not, we'll likely set him up for a title defense of his WBO As-Pac title in the Philippines.
ANTONIO ALDEGUER The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
VOLTAIRE If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo...
GEORGE W. S. TROW In the book, by Jeff Brown, Stanley gets squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. Stanley's parent...
DALE HUBERT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES For him it is just the beginning. He has his whole career still ahead and (winning the title so earl...
ALAIN PROST This has to be a fairy tale because I never read a book like his.
DOUG BIEGA His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will ...
ZELL MILLER While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, t...
BOB JOHNSON His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It woul...
MARK A. COOPER After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h...
WOODROW WILSON He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet whe...
CHANAKYA Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.
RICK RIORDAN Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title Hang loos...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor ...
MATTHEW HENRY At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
IAN MCEWAN He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.
SUZY KASSEM Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...
C.S. LEWIS After Peter came to recognize his own inadequacy, his utter inability to fulfill his destiny apart f...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mo...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good ...
THE TALMUD Creation of woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him; nor out of his fee...
UNKNOWN The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and ...
AYN RAND If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual au...
E. STANLEY JONES If his heart is ever taken by the blade and you feel his absence in the depths of your soul; within ...
GINA JAMMAL A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him...
CLAUDE BERNARD The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ...
THOMAS MANN He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled wi...
VICTOR HUGO This has got the attention of every CEO in America, ... How long can the president give mediation wh...
ROBIN LANIER You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
CASSANDRA CLARE A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. T...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show...
JOHN BURROUGHS This has got the attention of every CEO in America, ... How much time can the president give mediati...
ROBIN LANIER I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the ...
JAY MELTON If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaki...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice o...
ORSON PRATT They were eyeing each other at the bar and started talking. Mick didn't want to go, but his friends ...
HALEY GRAINGER Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he tha...
WILLIAM COWPER Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it...
HENRY MILLER Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.
CATHERINE FISHER The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And er...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I've known him since he was about 5 years old. I watched him grow up. In his school, in his communit...
JACK JONES Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has de...
ADONIRAM JUDSON Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memor...
WILLIAM GODWIN The only thing that can be brought from earth to eternal life is whether we worshipped G-d in a mann...
TROY J. GAINEY {Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about RICHARD F. STOCKTON The only sign of life Ryan has shown in three days is when his brother William kissed him and a tear...
JO BROWN Now, when a customer walks into a store, we can identify him, pull up his record and see what his si...
COO DENNIS HERNREICH You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name men...
MICHAEL GRANT Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le...
D.H. LAWRENCE All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by kil...
MAHATMA GANDHI God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spok...
A. W. TOZER They all knew him and were friends with him. They are playing in his memory.
DEAN DUQUETTE If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has re...
ALBERT EINSTEIN All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before,...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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