Andrew Comiskey Quotes

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame - living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Andrew Comiskey

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• Hopelessness
• Bound Up

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • First
  • Enthusiastic

• The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Being

• For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Reading

• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Theology
  • Sovereign

• The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Parents

• First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Car
  • Travel
  • Memories

• But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Strange
  • Indifference

• The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Teaches
  • Govern
  • State Of Nature

• do not conceal my lack of admiration for a pain fully long list of redistributive measures undertaken by modern governments. Many serve no ethically accepted purpose such as compassion for the needy; indeed, they serve only as recognition of which groups possess or lack political influence.

  

  George Stigler
  • Government
  • Influence
  • Serve

• It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Shame
  • Wash
  • Glued

• The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Bridge
  • Shame
  • Breath

• There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Genius

• I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!'

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Child
  • Birth
  • Abortion

• Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame - living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Shame
  • Hopelessness
  • Bound Up