We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRADDo something you’re very passionate about, and don’t try to chase what is kind of the “hot passion” of the day.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
AL-SHAFI'I -
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
BILL AYERS -
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
GEORGES CUVIER -
I’s all about finding balance in your life.
ADRIANA LIMA -
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
A. B. SIMPSON -
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Our freedom lays deeper than your laws will ever cut into paper… For my words and rights are more than lines.
LAURA CHOUETTE -
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
ADYASHANTI -
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
BARBARA JORDAN -
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
BARRY EISLER -
I’ve had a mentality that I can do anything, I’ve never put limitations on myself
URIJAH FABER -
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY -
You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.
BILL DIXON