Jan Morris Quotes
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Claude Debussy
I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
Joel Edgerton
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.
T. Colin Campbell
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Douglas Coupland
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.
David Sobel
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
