Rene Daumal Quotes
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.Rene Daumal
Quotes to Explore
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
Nancy Gibbs -
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy -
The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
Lata Mangeshkar -
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
Patricia Millett
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
Samantha Power -
Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
Karen Salmansohn -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
Nasim Pedrad -
I don't know if my songs fit in films.
Ed Sheeran
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
Cameron Dokey -
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
Ozwald Boateng -
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. Doctorow -
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie -
I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.
Octavia Spencer
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I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today...
Bud Adams -
Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
Amy Sarig King -
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
Rene Daumal