Things Quotes - page 100

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. (Gary Snyder)
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools. View quote
Georg Brandes
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries. View quote
Morton Feldman
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. View quote
Greg Egan
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. View quote
James Clavell
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were. View quote
Harpo Marx
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. View quote
Elon Musk
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world. View quote
Elon Musk
I'm nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible. View quote
Elon Musk
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things. (Jimmy Hoffa)
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. View quote
George Herbert
All things require skill but an appetite. View quote
George Herbert
Students today should begrudge every moment of time. This dewlike life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way. View quote
Dōgen
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. View quote
Anthony Trollope
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics. View quote
Nigel Farage
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain. (Henry Rollins)
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. View quote
Elliott Carter
Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events-they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore. View quote
Terry Brooks
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. View quote
Terry Brooks
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! View quote
Roger Bannister