David Markson Quotes
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
David Markson
Quotes to Explore
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The American dream is still to own your home.
Barry Sternlicht
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
R. C. Sproul
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Oprah Winfrey
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If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
Ben Bernanke
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager
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We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
John C. Danforth
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
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But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
Colin Meloy
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After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
Erykah Badu
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Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.
Michael Clarke Duncan
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
William Rawle