40229 Quotes

#1. A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.

Douglas Preston

#3. The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Anaxagoras

#4. People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not ... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

Igor Levit

#5. Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Nick Flynn

#6. You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.

Aleksandr Voinov

#7. I want the ocean right now. I want the ocean right now. I get so jealous that I can't even work.

Tegan Quin

#8. Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.

Eugene Uttley

#9. The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

John Podhoretz

#10. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

William Hazlitt

#12. I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Julian Schnabel