A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
GASTON BACHELARDFrom the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities – and I’m talking about both Republicans and Democrats – who believe that when you’re elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
BEN CARSON -
That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
ABERJHANI -
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL -
I sound the same regardless if I’m 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that’s the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I’m that type of person.
KELLY CLARKSON -
There’s not a lot of work in the U.K. I mean, that’s why everyone’s moving to America because that’s where the work seems to be. But it definitely feels like a lot more of a slog to get a gig these days.
BILLIE PIPER -
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
BEN AARONOVITCH -
The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
XUNZI -
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
AGATHA CHRISTIE -
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO -
When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.
STEPHEN HAWKING -
It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
AKIO MORITA -
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA