Harold Rosenthal Quotes

The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves. ~ Harold Bloom

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ~ Harold Bloom

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting. ~ Harold Evans

If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts. ~ Harold Ramis

Be loyal to the royal that is in you, for you are the child of a King. ~ Harold B. Lee

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. ~ Harold Lasswell

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. ~ Harold Rosenberg

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ~ Harold S. Kushner

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~ Harold Ross

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today. ~ Harold B. Lee

The quest for God is the quest for true happiness. ~ Harold Klemp

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. ~ Harold Brodkey

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books; ~ Harold Rabinowitz

Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages. ~ Harold Klemp

To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful. ~ Harold J. Sala

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. ~ Harold Bloom

This decline of literacy is accompanied by a rise in philistinism in America: a preference for the skillfully marketed and packaged product for the consumption of the mass man - the Top Ten on TV, NFL telecasts with the quite well-done Miller Lite and Mean Joe Green commercials - plus a few big commercial novels, whether the Harold Robbins novel in which sex figures second only to money, the Barbara Cartland novel in which sex becomes something called romance, or the Judy Blume novel in which teenagers are introduced to sex like Tarzan and Jane. ~ Walker Percy

Literature is achieved anxiety. ~ Harold Bloom

It is to this dimension of God, a God who cannot tolerate the reduction of a human being, fashioned in His image, to less than human status, that Job may be appealing. Job, in his extremity, is calling on God, saying, "I have no one left. I am without family. My friends have deserted me. You who are the Father of all humanity, is it not Your obligation to atone for my children's deaths as their go'el and to extract me from my current situation as my go'el?" Zophar ~ Harold S. Kushner

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ~ Harold Brodkey

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on. ~ Harold Holzer

How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver's seat in the church's life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul. ~ Harold L. Senkbeil

Harold pictured the gentleman on a station platform, smart in his suit, looking no different from anyone else. It must be the same all over England. People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The inhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. Moved and humbled, he passed his paper napkin. ~ Rachel Joyce

When Moses says, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" God answers not by telling Moses who he is, but by telling him who God is, saying, "I will be with you" (Exodus 3:12) ~ Harold S. Kushner

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense. ~ Harold Ford, Jr.

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked ... ~ Harold Brodkey

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news. ~ Harold Evans

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to. ~ Margaret Whiting

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ~ Harold Bloom

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. ~ Harold S. Kushner