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 are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  

  Chris Stringer
  • Enough
  • Humans
  • Modern

• Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

  

  Betty Rollin
  • Desire
  • Possibility
  • Equipment

• I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.

  

  Gail Levin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Surprise

• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• To live by medicine is to live horribly.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Medicine
  • Horribly

• All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Possibility