Quotes of Ian McEwan

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By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.

- Ian McEwan

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“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher