Freya Stark Quotes
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
Quotes to Explore
-
My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
-
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
-
Silence is also conversation.
-
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
-
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
-
I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
-
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
-
Silence is my dignity.
-
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
-
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
-
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
-
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
-
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
-
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
-
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
-
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
-
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
-
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
-
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
-
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
-
Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
-
Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
-
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
-
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
