Elaine Scarry Quotes
Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.
Quotes to Explore
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.
