Elaine Scarry Quotes
The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.
Elaine Scarry
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For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.
Lois Wyse
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. Powe
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.
Joanne Rowling
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
Napoleon Hill
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.
Elaine Scarry