Preformed Quotes

#1. Our concern with history ... is a concern with preformed images already imprinted in our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.

W.G. Sebald

#2. The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

Sean Astin

#3. It seemed as though he'd fluttered away like the tarnished, blood-orange leaves as they preformed their last dance, the dance of death.

Daawy

#4. Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

Walter Gilbert

#5. Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Leslie What

#7. I am not saying we should stop doing impossible,we should do and think impossible but we should not do and think intolerable.

Rajesh Walecha

#8. If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.

Michael Pollan

#9. Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

Mordechai Vanunu

#10. When am doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the actions. Even though everybody takes care of me, I still get hurt.

Aster Argent

#11. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Donella Meadows

#12. The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#13. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. The Moon"

There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.

Anne Rice

#16. Oh, I wonder if there's another way.

S.L. Wallace