Mandorla Almond Quotes

#1. The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad

#4. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

Michelle Sagara

#5. Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Beryl Bainbridge

#6. I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Kevin McCarthy

#7. There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Walter Wangerin

#9. If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

Daphne Oz

#10. I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Toni Morrison

#11. Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.

Talal Asad

#12. One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Ben Bass