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

• Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

  

  Adoniram Judson Gordon
  • Sorrow
  • Blessedness
  • Oratorio

• I’ve never lost that passion and I get excited and I love drums. I buy drums, I collect drums, and I’m still like a little kid. And if I change my drum kit around sometimes, just make it different, it keeps it exciting, you know what I mean. Some drummers, they’re so used to their setup they just play the same thing. But I like switching things around and keeping it exciting.

  

  John Tempesta The Cult
  • Passion
  • Exciting
  • Drum

• it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Generations
  • Hard Work
  • Correct

• 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