Edmond Jabes Quotes
The book does not open from left to right or from right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one in the dust.Edmond Jabes
Quotes to Explore
-
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida -
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
The good romances are as good as anything.
Karen Robards -
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen -
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria
-
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann -
They call me Fearless Felix.
Felix Baumgartner -
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon -
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian -
I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
Harish Rawat
-
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu -
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar -
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
Carlos Slim -
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu -
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
Fernando Pessoa -
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
Blaise Pascal
-
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
Anjelica Huston -
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.' That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.
Marcel Proust -
I used to think Shoji Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard Leach published about his work Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975 and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.
Warren MacKenzie -
I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
Zac Brown Band -
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The book does not open from left to right or from right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one in the dust.
Edmond Jabes