Frontlines Worker Quotes

#1. Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves.

B. Roman

#2. He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Juvenal

#3. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

Abraham Maslow

#5. Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.

Sylvie Simmons

#6. Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed them in a garbage can, left the building, and went to visit friends.

Gunter Grass

#7. [In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

Travis Fimmel

#8. When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

#9. I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

John Sexton

#10. Within the space of a few shows you can hear the band morph between their various identities as savvy arena rockers, intense starship pilots, vaudeville nostalgists, modest American folkies, boundary-dissolving improvisers, roots-conscious spiritualists, and mind-fucking pranksters.

Richard Gehr

#11. I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?

Sharon Waxman

#12. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.

Henning Mankell

#14. Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

Kathy Ireland

#15. Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.

Horatio Clare