Niveous Quotes

#1. The weather, the plants, the animals, and our human survival are all inextricably linked. The natural elements were at war with one another because we abused our ecosystem. Abused our atmosphere. Abused our animals. Abused our fellow man.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

Conor Oberst

#3. The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

Thomas Hardy

#4. It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

Samuel Hynes

#5. My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Nina Hoss

#6. What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

Stephen Colbert

#7. There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

Clark Ashton Smith

#8. No, I'm not." "Yes, you are." "No, I'm not." "Yes, you are." "I said Pax Non." "You said Pax." "No, I didn't." "Yes, you did." "No, I didn't." "Yes, you did.

T.H. White

#9. I was free, liberated. For a second there I even considered burning my bra.

Cookie O'Gorman

#10. One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Nelson Mandela

#11. We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Sarah Moon

#13. Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Roman Jakobson