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

• I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Black

• 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

• If you look at the housing market and say, are housing prices going up where job growth is high, where wage growth is high, where demographic movement brings people into the housing market? All of those things seem to be true.

  

  Edward Lazear
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Movement

• Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Cinema

• All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Movement
  • Source

• From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Success
  • Learn
  • Private Life

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

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Movement
  • Conditions
  • Effects