David George Haskell Quotes

#1. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Herman Wouk

#2. The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.

Aleksandra Layland

#3. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#4. If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

James Arthur

#5. To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.

Pope Francis

#6. It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

Gerard Arpey

#7. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Mark Twain

#8. It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Rebecca West

#9. like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

David George Haskell

#10. Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Mike Brown

#11. You have the power to make manifest that which is not yet visible, to create that which is still unborn.

Margot Anand

#12. Bird memories are therefore a tree's dream of the future.

David George Haskell

#13. Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

Zendaya

#15. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume