Norman Davies Quotes

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

Norman Davies

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Song
  • Image
  • Mental

• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Conscience
  • Nobody
  • Tale

• I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Thought

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Like
  • Commercial

• I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Better
  • Results
  • Meditation

• Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Way
  • Become
  • Fabric

• I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Opportunities
  • Exploring

• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • School
  • Together
  • Support

• I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Time
  • Music
  • Doubt

• You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Children
  • Think

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

  

  Anne Michaels
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Author

• By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Death
  • Victory

• Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Life
  • Come
  • Suppose

• I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

  

  Jeanette MacDonald
  • Good
  • Training
  • Drinking

• A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • She
  • Smile

• Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Life
  • Death
  • Balance