Raymond Carver Quotes

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Raymond Carver

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• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Window

• We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Time
  • Start

• I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Live
  • Love
  • Going

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • History
  • Genius
  • Vinyl

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Teach

• I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Know
  • Never

• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  

  Abba Kovner
  • World
  • Way
  • Explore

• The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Lost
  • Chance
  • Moment

• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Learning

• I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

  

  Georgia May Jagger
  • Fact
  • Teeth
  • Gap

• there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Chance
  • Sweetness
  • Intervals