Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell
Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
Wanda Sykes
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
H. G. Bissinger
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
Gabriel Mann
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
Jeff Koons
The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.
Martin Van Creveld
I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
Chris O'Donnell
I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.
Michael Heizer
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
