John Steinbeck quotes - page 4

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. (John Steinbeck)
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
John Steinbeck
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
John Steinbeck
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
John Steinbeck
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
John Steinbeck
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
John Steinbeck
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
John Steinbeck
A man without words is a man without thought.
John Steinbeck
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? (John Steinbeck)
I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
John Steinbeck
No one who is young is ever going to be old.
John Steinbeck
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
John Steinbeck
Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
John Steinbeck
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
John Steinbeck
Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
John Steinbeck
We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
John Steinbeck
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
John Steinbeck
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
John Steinbeck
Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory. (John Steinbeck)
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
John Steinbeck
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
John Steinbeck
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
John Steinbeck
I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.
John Steinbeck