It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Quote by John Steinbeck

Topics: Action Quotes, Choice Quotes, Death And Dying Quotes, Living Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that...

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that...

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like...

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like...

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at...

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at...

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and...

Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change,...

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change,...

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and...

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.