Quotes from Jack London

One bully long res'.

La vida llega a su más alto punto cuando se realiza, con todas las fuerzas de que se es capaz, aquello para lo cual se le dieron cuantos medios necesitaba.

Animava-o a coragem que o medo dá.

Biliyor musunuz,' diye ekledi. 'Bay Butler'a ac?yorum. DoÄŸru dürüst harcayamayaca?? otuz bin dolar kazanmak için hayat?n? boÅŸa harcam??. Niye mi, çünkü art?k otuz bin dolar verse bile çocukken on sente alabileceÄŸi ÅŸeyleri alamaz, mesela ÅŸeker, f?st?k veya tiyatroda en üst balkondan bir bilet.

his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle.

mas o branco fala verdade de formas diferentes. Hoje fala verdade, amanhã fala verdade de outra maneira e não há como compreendê-lo nem se entende o seu modo de ser.

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world.

nights on the street. It seems that not only the man who becomes old is punished for his involuntary misfortune, but likewise the man who is struck by disease or accident.

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

Bidarshik sempre viajou para lugares distantes - interrompeu Zilla em tom de orgulho. - Ser verdade - assentiu Ebbits gravemente. - E sempre regressou para se sentar ao lume e ansiar lugares distantes e desconhecidos.

He must master or be mastered;

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Noa Noah shook his head and grinned. "He no savvee me Tahitian," he explained.  "He savvee me wear pants all the same white man." "You'll have to give him a course in 'Sartor Resartus,'" Sheldon laughed, as he came down and began to make friends with Satan. It chanced just then that Adamu Adam and Matauare, two of Joan's

Quando quer que um homem surgisse e quisesse ir adiante, todos os que ficaram parados no tempo diziam que ele estava regredindo e devia ser morto. E a gente pobre ajudava a apedrejá-lo, pois era tola. Todos nós éramos tolos, exceto os que engordavam e não trabalhavam. Os tolos eram chamados de sábios, e os sábios eram apedrejados. Homens que trabalhavam não tinham o suficiente para comer, e homens que não trabalhavam comiam demais.

Todos estamos prontos para pensar que há algo de errado no processo mental de quem discorda de nós.

She waited, she knew not for what, panting, with dry, burning lips, a leaping pulse, and a fever of expectancy in all her blood.

He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.

Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud..... He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his tongue. It bit like fire, and the next instant was gone. This puzzled him. He tried it again, with the same result. The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.

his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.

Nor did ever a miser prize his treasure as did I prize the knife.

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move.

Dawn caught us on the northern brow, and in the gray light we dropped down through chaparral into redwood canyons deep and warm with the breath of passing summer

Mrs. Morse did not require a mother's intuition to read the advertisement in Ruth's face when she returned home. The flush that would not leave the cheeks told the simple story, and more eloquently did the eyes, large and bright, reflecting an unmistakable inward glory.