Edith Durham Quotes

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

Edith Durham

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• Craft is everything.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Everything
  • Craft

• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Money
  • Power
  • Society

• Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Men
  • Hippie
  • Cop

• A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Understanding

• I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Pain

• Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Eternal

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Aim

• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Tree

• Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Dream
  • Poor

• I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Driven

• When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Girl
  • Inducted
  • Hotel Suite

• The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Powers
  • Policies
  • Geography

• Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

  

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos
  • Values
  • Powers
  • Defend

• I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Passion
  • Suffering
  • Lesson

• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Suffering
  • Chance
  • Goal

• They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

  

  Edith Durham
  • Powers
  • Empires
  • Wreckage