Raymond Carver Quotes

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Raymond Carver

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Vacation

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

  

  James Larkin
  • Hope
  • Inspiration
  • Movement

• The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Man
  • Movement

• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Drug
  • Works
  • Effects

• I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Movie
  • Things
  • Acting

• A large movement covers a small movement

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Small
  • Movement

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Diseases

• As long as there's not permanent damage to our energy infrastructure, the effects on the overall economy should be fairly modest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Effects

• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Conditions
  • Capable

• I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

  

  Katie Pavlich
  • People
  • Movement
  • Street

• I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Independent
  • Pleasure
  • Books

• Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Spirit
  • Humans
  • Expression

• Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Movement
  • Conditions
  • Effects