Correspondences Quotes

#1. The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you're lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures." "I'm not

M.R. Carey

#2. I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Vaginal Davis

#3. Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

Octavio Paz

#5. Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Kathleen Raine

#6. Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

#7. Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

J.G. Ballard

#9. We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

Helene Grimaud

#10. This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#11. My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.

David Beckham

#12. All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#13. There are worse misdeeds than those that are done for a higher purpose.

Ali Benjamin

#14. Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.

Milton Friedman

#15. I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

Margaret Thatcher

#16. What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Milton Friedman

#17. A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.

Ann Coulter

#18. Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

Edna Buchanan

#19. As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it is impossible to understand the meaning of one link without having regard to the complete chain.

John Daniel

#20. Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.

Ina May Gaskin

#21. I forget. I don't see. I don't think.

Fernando Pessoa

#22. When she dressed, she put on her Maycomb clothes: gray slacks, a black sleeveless blouse, white socks, and loafers. Although it was four hours away, she could hear her aunt's sniff of disapproval." (Chapter 1)

Harper Lee

#23. The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Charles Eastman

#24. If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.

Kate Wicker

#25. When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

Stephen Amell

#26. Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Ludwig Von Mises

#27. God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu