Freya Stark Quotes

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • Kids
  • House

• Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Possibility

• To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Search
  • Possibility
  • Aware

• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Different
  • Humans
  • Loss

• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Enemy
  • Possibility
  • Plans

• This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Economy

• It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

  

  M. Ward
  • Realizing
  • Possibility
  • Strings

• Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possibility
  • Consider
  • Miracles

• The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Age
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility

• There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Responsibility

• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Possibility
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• I knew as a possibility, but I was kinda shocked.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Possibility
  • Shocked
  • Kinda

• The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

  

  John Ensign
  • Safety
  • Protect
  • Possibility

• How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Believe
  • Possibility

• The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Word
  • Possibility
  • Climate

• There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Death
  • Possibility
  • Penance

• It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility. People Done Vulnerable Desperate Possibility Resilient Salvation Damage Made Might Pay Refreshing Edges Ifs Whole Made It

  

  Daphne Merkin
  • People
  • Done
  • Possibility

• I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Reason
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • People
  • Mind
  • Done

• All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Possibility