Anne Carson Nox Quotes

#1. The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

Frank Herbert

#2. The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Susan Stewart

#3. The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Barack Obama

#7. I'd never forget Sunny! Never in a million years! Not that I will live that long! Particularly because I don't exercise very much! But I don't like exercising, so it's worth it!

Lemony Snicket