John Burnside Quotes
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.John Burnside
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper -
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
Balaji S. Srinivasan -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I think I was a born scientist.
Ken Wilber -
I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
Chuck Feeney -
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Marton Csokas -
And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?
Richard Trumka -
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams -
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
John Burnside