John Berger Quotes
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.John Berger
Quotes to Explore
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
The muses visit when I'm lonely.
Taylor Hicks -
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim -
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson -
People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
Hansika Motwani -
There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
Marat Safin -
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Pamela Stephenson -
I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
Xavier Becerra -
I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
Karan Singh Grover
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
Robert Frost -
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph Chaplin -
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage -
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.
Ray Bradbury -
When I was first swinging, it was a little more difficult left-handed to get my hand out and roll over.
J. M. Roberts -
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
John Berger