Geertz 1973 Quotes

#1. Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. But - " I start to say. "It never helps to start a sentence from behind," Katherine says, trying to add some lightness to the conversation.

David Estes

#3. Flame was the way, in the Dells, to send the bodies of the dead where their souls had gone, into nothingness. To respect that all things ended, except the world.

Kristin Cashore

#4. It would be so much easier to be aggressive if she were wearing her bra.

Liane Moriarty

#5. Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore.

Rumi

#6. I think being organized should be in your lifestyle. I run a few different businesses, so I have to be organized. And I think everyone around me will also feel organized. To have chaos going on, it just doesn't work.

Olivia Palermo

#7. It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

Caterina Fake

#8. A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.

Sai Baba

#9. We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.

Julian Barnes

#10. The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Lyor Cohen

#12. It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Charles Dickens

#14. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield