Edmond Jabes Quotes
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton -
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons -
The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
Ted Cruz -
My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond -
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
Orlando Bloom -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow -
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian -
You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
Kate Thompson -
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
Karl Jaspers -
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
Ben Carson -
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
Wendell Phillips -
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell -
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Angela Carter -
That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.
Jason Isbell -
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Evelyn Waugh -
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
Kenneth Clark -
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
Saul Bellow -
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
Leonardo da Vinci -
By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
Edmond Jabes