Disgrace Coetzee Quotes

#1. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. [Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Edward Gibbon

#3. No one ever said you have to be dead and buried to be a ghost.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#4. Also, I didn't trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

Richelle Mead

#5. I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

Robert Englund

#6. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

T.K. Naliaka

#7. As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.

Renee Ahdieh

#8. The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard.
Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

#9. The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

Piet Mondrian

#10. Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, Can we find a way for the two to coexist?

J.M. Coetzee

#11. Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. [Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
enslaved by tradition and memory.

Jiddu Krishnamurti