Eva Figes Quotes
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
Eva Figes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
Iris DeMent
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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
Kage Baker
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Fair use is not in the law.
Jack Valenti
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Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
Dan Simmons
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys
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Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.
Colin Wilson
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People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
Charles Best
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
Vernon A. Walters
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
Zosia Mamet
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Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
T. E. Lawrence
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Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
Eva Figes