Rebecca Solnit Quotes
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.Rebecca Solnit
Quotes to Explore
-
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater -
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
Natalie Morales -
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
Ted Bell -
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
Gary Paulsen -
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
Youssou N'Dour
-
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
Barack Obama -
He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
Oscar Levant -
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
Laura Anne Gilman -
This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry -
I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
Kathryn Harrison
-
I love my refrigerator.
Al Roker -
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
Lee Westwood -
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
Marion Cotillard -
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth L. Pike -
Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.
Elisabeth Moss -
I'm the top rapper in the world.
Future
-
I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln -
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Barack Obama -
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
G. M. Trevelyan -
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit