Eva Brann Quotes

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

Eva Brann

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• There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Will
  • Cooperation

• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Know

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Knowledge
  • Dangerous

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fight
  • Christ
  • Temptation

• That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Forces
  • Member
  • Coalition

• When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • God
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Action
  • Criticism
  • Equal

• Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Two

• A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Book
  • Open
  • Breeze

• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Sometimes
  • Poet

• Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

  

  Geoffrey Sampson
  • Achievement
  • Intellectual
  • Humankind

• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  

  Eva Brann
  • Poet
  • Gods
  • Cloud