“The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.” MindBodySufferingGrowsContemplation Author:Ovid
“Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.” BelieveMayMeanDifferentFormUsedUniverseBornDyingRemainsPhrasesBelieve In MeVary Author:Ovid
“An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.” FearUnderstandingIncreaseMedicineMedicalAssociationDistributionConsumedAccumulation Author:Ovid
“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.” MenHelpingSeemsSubjectsPerfectionOrganizationCrueltyInvoluntaryDeafnessFallibilityUnable To Help Author:John Cheever
“We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.” SpiritualReligionPrayerWonderPraiseSmellApplesBlessSpiritual LifeAdoreOur PrayersGlorifyAislePretty WomanBowelsBaritones Author:John Cheever
“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.” WritingLastsLiteratureAbilityConsciousnessRolesDangerNuclearHideousNuclear PowerNuclear Plants Author:John Cheever
“I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.” WayFeelsKindValuesDifficultDearDifficult Life Author:Melissa Bank
“Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.” MindPersonsTurnsAsksFunCreativeMetsDetailsBoringAsk MeBe CreativeMudBoring Person Author:Melissa Bank
“Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.” ThinkingMightLiteratureTeacherCollegeInterpretationEnglish Teacher Author:Melissa Bank
