“And what then, eh?” “So he established two foundations at the extreme opposing ends of the Galaxy – Foundations of the best, and the youngest, and the strongest, there to breed, grow, and develop.
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire
Her mind was less difficult to develop.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
These, and the indulgence of his publisher, allowed Tolkien a luxury few authors enjoy: multiple chances not only to correct his text but to improve it, and to further develop the languages, geography, and peoples of Middle-earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.” These words are all the more remarkable because, in spite of his great physical sufferings, Osip Alexéevich is never weary of life though he loves death, for which—in spite of the purity and loftiness of his inner man—he does not yet feel himself sufficiently prepared.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Nick wondered, not for the first time that day, when he would start to sneeze and run a fever and develop those peculiar swellings on his neck.
King, Stephen
The Stand
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
An hour later, they had made very little progress, though their table was littered with bits of parchment bearing sums and symbols, and Harry’s brain was as fogged as though it had been filled with the fumes from Professor Trelawney’s fire.“I haven’t got a clue what this lot’s supposed to mean,” he said, staring down at a long list of calculations.“You know,” said Ron, whose hair was on end because of all the times he had run his fingers through it in frustration, “I think it’s back to the old Divination standby.”“What — make it up?”“Yeah,” said Ron, sweeping the jumble of scrawled notes off the table, dipping his pen into some ink, and starting to write.“Next Monday,” he said as he scribbled, “I am likely to develop a cough, owing to the unlucky conjunction of Mars and Jupiter.” He looked up at Harry.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
But before the surprise can develop into murmurings of disapproval, the doors to the gallery are thrown open.
Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister
The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve and destroy brain, had still to develop.
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
Frequently, in the course of a two or three days’ trip, in hot weather and without water, some hog would develop cholera, and die; and the rest would attack him before he had ceased kicking, and when the car was opened there would be nothing of him left but the bones.
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
It is entirely possible that if a human brain were divided in a very young person, both hemi- spheres could as a result separately and indepen- dently develop mental functions of a high order at the level attained only in the left hemisphere of nor- mal individuals.
Dick, Philip K.
A Scanner Darkly
We opposite ones, however, who have opened our eye and conscience to the question how and where the plant “man” has hitherto grown most vigorously, believe that this has always taken place under the opposite conditions, that for this end the dangerousness of his situation had to be increased enormously, his inventive faculty and dissembling power (his “spirit”) had to develop into subtlety and daring under long oppression and compulsion, and his Will to Life had to be increased to the unconditioned Will to Power—we believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter’s art and devilry of every kind—that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite—we do not even say enough when we only say this much, and in any case we find ourselves here, both with our speech and our silence, at the other extreme of all modern ideology and gregarious desirability, as their antipodes perhaps?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
We cannot account how it is that an acorn, when put into the ground, is made to develop itself and become an oak.
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason
“Most decidedly,” said he, “men are not equal, and I must beg my father to develop this theorem in the Chamber of Peers.”
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Little by little he began to develop the expectation that this day something important, something decisive, was to happen to him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish?
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
But it would have been more amusing, as a spectacle, if they had had the chance to develop, untrammelled, the full horror of their potentialities.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
A few minutes crawled by, and then everything happened at once in that confusing, overlapping, inconclusive way with which emergency situations seem to develop.
Stephen King
Insomnia
While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop’d and enclosing individuals.
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Cut off from our common deep structures, we began to develop new languages that had nothing in common with each other.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five
But we're small, we're weak, and we don't develop nuclear weapons,” says Haymitch with a touch of sarcasm.
Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
I was sent to these Arabs as a stranger, unable to think their thoughts or subscribe their beliefs, but charged by duty to lead them forward and to develop to the highest any movement of theirs profitable to England in her war.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The powerful want a “safe line of investigations,” which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors.
Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune
A plant or an animal has an order of developement peculiar to it, a bamboo will not develop evenly like a willow, nor a willow from joint to joint, and both have branches, that lessen and grow more light as they rise, and no characteristic of the soil can alter these things.
W. B. Yeats
Poetry
S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afternoon’s run— Half what these gentlemen did— You would feel rather hot, But your legs would develop terrific— Yes, my importunate son, You’d be a Marvellous Kid!
Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories
When you going to develop a sense of responsibility and get a raise?
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
It is as if a man, whose back was broken or nearly so and who was compelled to go bent, should find a branch backbone sprouting straight up from below the break and should gradually develop new arms and shoulders and head, while the old damaged portion of his body died.
John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
Mischief and Misinformation Committees are racing each other to develop a computer virus that will make automated bank tellers sick enough to vomit storms of ten- and twentydollar bills.
Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club
With the body definitely not being the self, and not the spectacle of the senses, so it also was not the thought, not the rational mind, not the learned wisdom, not the learned ability to draw conclusions and to develop previous thoughts in to new ones.
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
You don’t make sense.’ There were three members of the Action Board, the bloated colonel with the big fat mustache, Lieutenant Scheisskopf and Major Metcalf, who was trying to develop a steely gaze.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
It may be remarked, that the character of Thersites, revolting and contemptible as it is, serves admirably to develop the disposition of Ulysses in a new light, in which mere cunning is less prominent.
Homer
The Iliad
The next four sections, on division of labour, develop into the first three chapters of Book I of the Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations