Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think. Pearl S. Buck reading people thinking In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection. Pearl S. Buck reflection white men It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one. Pearl S. Buck difficult government easy No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son. Pearl S. Buck daughter mother son Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it. Pearl S. Buck renaissance eras earth The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be. Pearl S. Buck united-states real country the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter. Pearl S. Buck sea food lobster Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive. Pearl S. Buck alive blessing love-is It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love. Pearl S. Buck capacity-to-love important heart When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace. Pearl S. Buck home running doors It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. Pearl S. Buck tinder tomorrow lying ... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. Pearl S. Buck war peace mean If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. Pearl S. Buck revision tasks writing There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food. Pearl S. Buck food-banks people world What seems new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck judaism workout seems No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life." Pearl S. Buck real life father The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women. Pearl S. Buck memorable discovery men The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top. Pearl S. Buck mountain finals grief For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. Pearl S. Buck democracies-have women effort Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that. Pearl S. Buck writing trying thinking
