Elaine Scarry Quotes

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

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• I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Miami

• I've learned a lot since last time around. You learn a lot about yourself, about competing and training.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Training
  • Learn
  • Competing

• The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

  

  William Henry Ashley
  • Snow
  • Consequence
  • Camps

• Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Dance
  • Sympathy

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Real
  • Past

• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pleasure
  • Illusion
  • Satisfaction

• To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

  

  George Washington
  • Spring
  • Labor
  • Affair

• Perhaps uncertainty is a good trait, in line with the complexity of the world in which we live.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • World
  • Uncertainty
  • Trait

• Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

  

  Georges Courteline
  • True
  • Woman
  • Same Time

• Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Hope
  • Means
  • Forgiving

• When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • People
  • Friends
  • Three

• There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Mind
  • Computer
  • Chess

• It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Imagine
  • Evolution
  • Alien

• How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Affected
  • Weights
  • Blance