Ishmael Beah Quotes

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

Ishmael Beah

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• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Influence
  • First
  • Chaos

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Chaos
  • Charm
  • Tropical

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Chaos

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Chaos

• I want to be naked running through the streets, I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Running
  • Chaos

• Panic! for me has been an outlet for nonchalant chaos. It gives me full ride to fulfill this dream that anything is possible because of this band.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Dream
  • Band
  • Chaos

• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Reality
  • Chaos

• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Chaos

• I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Broken
  • Chaos
  • Immigration

• With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Remember

• Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

  

  James Stephens
  • Law
  • Reflection
  • Chaos

• Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • World
  • Parents
  • Blessed

• I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.

  

  Faith Erin Hicks
  • Purpose
  • Mine
  • Birthright

• How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Language

• My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • World
  • House
  • Running

• We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

  

  Ishmael Beah
  • Circumstances
  • Chaos
  • Move On