Dehisce Quotes

#1. The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Ben Lerner

#2. I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Tom Stoppard

#3. Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

Steven Pinker

#4. I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

Charlie Ebersol

#5. A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Phyllis McGinley

#6. If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

A. M. Rosenthal

#7. To develop judgment, you need to not only read theory but also apply it, and discussion-based or case-based teaching is a way to simulate business situations and have students ask themselves, "What would I do if I were in this specific situation?

Espen Anderson

#8. It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Natalie Dormer

#9. Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names." There

Neil Gaiman

#10. Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
- by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

Deepak Chopra

#12. The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men.

Daphne Du Maurier

#13. If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

Billy Donovan

#14. A finger had to be cut, to save the hand.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.

George Arundale

#16. Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .

Paul Tillich