Great Throughts Treasury

"I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle part of my thought." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Thou askest me to take things seriously? After what thou didst last night? When thou needest to kill a man and instead did what you did? You were supposed to kill one, not make one! When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother's breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance - and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem." - Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

"If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official statement"; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as "a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of "well-informed circles." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along that spoiled everything." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons." - Felix Adler

"Who buys land buys war." -