Top 33 Cavell Quotes

#1. Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

Philip Kitcher

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#2. The drudgery of being a professional writer comes in trying to make good days out of bad days and in squeezing out the words when they won't just flow.

Benjamin Cavell

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#3. I turned back. Just put one foot in front of the other. Nothing had changed except the color of the road.

Danielle Paige

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#4. I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Edith Cavell

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#5. Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

Narendra Modi

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#6. Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

Edith Cavell

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#7. Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

Edith Cavell

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#8. essence of hell is sin, and the essence of Heaven is holiness,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#9. Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Judith Martin

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#10. Can you kiss me again?" the whisper came like a plea laced with honey and need, and any desire to enjoy one thing at a time was lost in that second. "Come here baby boy and I'll kiss you forever,

Talon P.S.

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#11. I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Huxley

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#12. I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

Stanley Cavell

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#13. The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Stanley Cavell

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#14. Patriotism alone is not enough.

Edith Cavell

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#15. The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.

Stanley Cavell

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#16. I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Stanley Cavell

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#17. I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence
the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves
to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

Stanley Cavell

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#18. Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me.

Michelle Yeoh

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#19. I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

Ike Barinholtz

Cavell Quotes #833408
#20. A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding the rest of the world away. The camera has been praised for extending the senses; it may, as the world goes, deserve more praise for confining them, leaving room for thought.

Stanley Cavell

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#21. Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

Peter Eisenman

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#22. There are no whys or hows when it comes to the natural order of things. It just is.

Julie Kagawa

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#23. Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

Stanley Cavell

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#24. I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell

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#25. he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

Emily Bronte

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#26. To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

Belle S. Spafford

Cavell Quotes #633499
#27. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey

Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie

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#28. The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially ... it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you.

Stanley Cavell

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#29. I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

Stanley Cavell

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#30. I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

Edith Cavell

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#31. One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

Stanley Cavell

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#32. Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Edith Cavell

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#33. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Stanley Cavell

Cavell Quotes #10406

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