Jessamyn West Quotes
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.Jessamyn West
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
S. C. Gwynne -
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White -
There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
Ed Sheeran -
I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
Pablo Sandoval -
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
Vince Lombardi -
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel -
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine -
Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart -
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Wendy Kopp -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
J. C. Ryle -
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
Andrew Marr -
Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.
Rod Stewart -
The men and the women in the CIA, they do their job regardless of who is in the White House. Same for NSA. Same for FBI. These men and women are putting themselves in harm's way. Have to deal with difficult situations.
Will Hurd -
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
David Rolf -
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Jessamyn West