Freshly Plucked Quotes

#1. Death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack.

Erri De Luca

#2. It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.

Wes Fesler

#3. Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.

Jo Baker

#5. I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

Mariko Mori

#6. The institution represented an attempt to shift onto others - specifically, the victims - the burden of guilt, so that they were deprived of even the solace of innocence.

Primo Levi

#7. Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#8. It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

Paul Pierce

#9. Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Dean Kamen

#10. For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.

Kelly Blatz

#11. It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.

Lesley Manville

#12. Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

Sheryl Crow

#13. Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.

Lauren Dane

#14. You do it how you can do it,
so long as it's getting done,
you're okay.

Emma Forrest

#15. Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

Thomas Paine