Things Quotes - page 99

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. View quote
Ross Perot
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first. View quote
Philip Larkin
We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things? View quote
George Lakoff
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun. View quote
Thomas Browne
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. View quote
Thomas Browne
Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man "in power" depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he "causes" things to happen...it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation. (Gregory Bateson)
Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief. View quote
Gregory Bateson
I remember my own childhood vividly... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. View quote
Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. View quote
Maurice Sendak
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. View quote
Maurice Sendak
I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction. View quote
Maurice Sendak
How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live. View quote
Tariq Ali
How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself? View quote
John Waters
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value. View quote
Georges Bernanos
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things. View quote
Carl Andre
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. (Terry Eagleton)
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. View quote
Philip Sidney
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto [Jorge Luis] Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way. View quote
John Barth
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage. View quote
Gary Cole