Diane Ackerman Quotes

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Search

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Great
  • End

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Daddy

• Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• 'If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore

• At that stage my heart ruled my head'.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Heart

• The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Lies

• Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot

• It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Impossible

• Venus and Mars are our next of kin: they are the two most Earth-like planets that we know about. They're the only two other very Earth-like planets in our solar system, meaning they orbit close to the sun; they have rocky surfaces and thin atmospheres.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Rocky

• One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Up
  • World
  • Character

• These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.

  

  Gary Young Pavement
  • Wrong
  • Conditions
  • Desperate

• I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • College
  • Period

• Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

  

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