Nevertheless Come Autumn Quotes

#1. Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lahr

#2. There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Joe Biden

#4. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#5. If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. The ocean-blue bowl won't
refuse to bruise, won't hold it back
from the gaping earth-wounds.
There will still come
water, chill wind and happy
goosebumps,
and in the utmost corners of oaks,
leaves laughing.

Bryana Johnson

#7. Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.

Adam Ross

#8. The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

Li Keqiang

#9. With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.

Cassandra Clare

#10. The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Rem Koolhaas

#11. Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

Eugene H. Peterson

#12. What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

Amy Hempel