Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
-
-
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK -
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK -
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK -
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK -
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK -
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK -
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK -
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK -
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECK -
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK -
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK






