David Markson Quotes
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
David Markson
Quotes to Explore
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The American dream is still to own your home.
Barry Sternlicht
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
R. C. Sproul
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Oprah Winfrey
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If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
Ben Bernanke
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager
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We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
John C. Danforth
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
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I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Nicholas Davies
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de Balzac
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Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.
Debra Ginsberg
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
William Rawle
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The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
David Markson
