48 Quotations by John Steinbeck
- 21. It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
- 22. Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we ...
- 23. Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th ...
- 24. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
- 25. Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves thre ...
- 26. No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi ...
- 27. No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi ...
- 28. No one wants advice, only corroboration.
- 29. No one wants advice, only corroboration.
- 30. Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I ...
- 31. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- 32. Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.
- 33. The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
- 34. The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the childr ...
- 35. The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smo ...
- 36. The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
- 37. The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best ...
- 38. There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out wh ...
- 39. This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the mac ...
- 40. Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck Quotes by Power Quotations
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