36 quotes found
“Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with al...”
“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey th...”
“L'utilit du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.”
“Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.”
“D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.”
“L'honneste est stable et permanent.”
“J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la libert.”
“Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruaut, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.”
“Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.”
“Les naturels sanguinaires l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle la cruaut.”
“Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attach l'homme quelque instinct l'inhumanit”
“Even ivory towers need central heating.”
“It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible "Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behavior in several studies, as hav...”
“I've learned that a certain amount of self-doubt is a good tool for correcting, understanding, listening, and progressing - though too much is paralyzing and total self-confidence produces arrogant...”
“That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social minor to violent silencing and violent death (and I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if...”
“[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.”
“The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Na...”
“....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time”
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and ...”
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world.”
