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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
Tertullian -
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The Canadian coaches are working very hard. This is the first time we have foreign coaches. Before that we really don't know how to work with them. But since they came, we got great help from them. Whenever we feel frustrated, they always encourage us, and help us get out of the frustration. Besides, they are really nice people, very kind.
Han Xiaopeng
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'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.
Simon Bird -
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan