Eurydice Davis Quotes

#1. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

John Wesley Powell

#2. Almost all civilized peoples have been brought up to think of themselves as ghosts in machines,

Alan W. Watts

#3. The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

#4. The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.

George Pelecanos

#5. Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

B.F. Skinner

#6. He said, "The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well." She

Nevil Shute

#7. Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others.

Frederick Lenz

#8. We are each what never leaves us, what we never see
the back of
is the self. But what loves us
is at the back, as Eurydice was
escorting him out
without his knowing.

Christina Davis

#9. I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Henri Nouwen

#10. I don't want to be defined by this.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#11. Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.

Francesca Annis

#15. I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

Meredith Brooks