Marge Piercy Quotes

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

Marge Piercy

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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Rest

• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Rock

• I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

  

  Ovid
  • Beautiful
  • Rest
  • Crop

• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Great
  • Rest
  • Best

• If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • Power
  • Growth

• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Environment

• Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.

  

  Ken Wilber
  • Long
  • Transformation

• Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.

  

  Gabriel Cousens
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Peace

• What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Exercise

• Amy Adams was great to work with, fun and lovely.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fun

• I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Rest
  • Transformation
  • Doorways