Ekiz Usaq Quotes

#1. All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. To have a rich mind is better than to have a rich bank account.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

George Whitefield

#4. People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

Isabel Allende

#5. We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Hannah Simone

#7. The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Norman Rush

#8. Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

#9. It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Theaster Gates