Anna Breytenbach Quotes

#1. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. Ultimately we cannot eliminate enemies through violence - violence only multiplies enemies. The only way to eliminate enemies is to love them, forgive them,

Brian Zahnd

#3. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self ...

Chris Brown

#5. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Drew Barrymore

#6. Faster's always better, but you have to mind those curves. They're wicked. They can kill a man in a heartbeat.

J.C. Reed

#7. Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

Franz Kafka

#8. I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

Woody Allen

#9. I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity.

A.B. Simpson

#11. Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

Frank Stella

#12. The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

#13. Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#14. He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

Gregory Maguire

#15. But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

Jeffrey Eugenides