Cate Marvin Quotes
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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No dream is ever to big.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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The reason for the lights is simple. Wellesley has very limited open space, and our playing field space is extremely tight. Having the ability to put lights at Reidy would allow us to, really, double the utilization of our primary field.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
