Shana Alexander Quotes

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Journey
  • Darkness

• The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Seasons

• I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Control

• Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Road

• It starts with your diet and then to your exercise... you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Control
  • Exercise
  • Diet

• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Actors
  • Intelligent
  • Bills

• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Brain

• One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

  

  Kage Baker
  • School

• Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Men
  • Today

• I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Applied
  • Uncyclopedia Bassists

• Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • Thinking
  • Changed
  • Miserable

• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Rocks
  • Hammocks