Jonathan Littell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render thanks to God and go in peace. But always keep this thought in mind: you might be luckier than I, but youâ€™re not a better person.
-- Jonathan Littell

#Country #Children #Wife
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.
-- Jonathan Littell

#Believe #Air #Drink
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
-- Jonathan Littell

#Men #Hands
If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.
-- Jonathan Littell

#Tears #Faces #Cry
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.
-- Jonathan Littell

#Together #Connections #Sides

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.
Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!
My wife went off with Elvis.

Jonathan Littell famous quotes

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