Renata Adler Quotes

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Renata Adler

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• 'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • World
  • Things
  • Dangerous

• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • American
  • City

• Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • American
  • Catholic
  • Italian

• If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Humanity

• Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Trying
  • Get
  • Expect

• There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Mind
  • Development
  • Contradiction

• The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Home
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts

• The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Science
  • Economy
  • Students

• God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • True
  • Veil

• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Evil
  • Promise
  • Pleasure

• There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • History
  • Past

• The team played well enough to win it, but they didn't finish. When you're on the road, you have to do some things to win, because it's a bit extra special.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Road
  • Win

• My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Capacity
  • Exists
  • Occasions