Gerald Brenan Quotes
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.Gerald Brenan
Quotes to Explore
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon -
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton Trueblood -
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi Murakami -
Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.
Andrew Bernstein -
The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.
Barack Obama
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
Edward Jenner -
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
William Penn -
Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
Seth Godin -
I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
Nella Larsen
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
Ian Mckellen -
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
Mitch Kapor -
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan