Robert Nathan Quotes

#1. There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Robert Nathan

#2. If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

Paul Taylor

#3. Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

#4. You cannot be anything but who you are, and you are not a killer. I am a killer, all I need to know is who you need for me to kill.

James Lee Nathan III

#5. You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.

Frederick Lenz

#6. We were rebels; and embraced freedom; yet we committed ourselves to love, and we were hopeful. Of what, I cannot exactly say: perhaps of a better way of life on earth. Well, we had reason: the last trump was not as close then as it is today.

Robert Nathan

#7. When plotting revenge, you should dig two graves - one for your enemy, and the other for yourself

Nathan Robert Brown

#8. What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

Robert Nathan

#9. Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy ... But I am one hell of a stud!

Jon Voight

#10. While we stood kissing that night under the cold burning stars and held on tight, it did not feel that we were stealing time. It felt that it was all our own.

Ally Condie

#11. Hugging isn't everything."

"Well," replied Juliet, "it's something.

Robert Nathan

#12. There was nothing meek about her. She supposed that God loved her, but in a personal way; she took it for granted that He admired her.

Robert Nathan

#13. For as long as there have been heroes, those half-brave, half-mad souls willing to dash headlong against things that would send most of us screaming in the other direction, there have been stories to immortalize their journeys.

Nathan Robert Brown

#14. We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

Robert Nathan

#15. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I

Robert Nathan

#16. Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief, whether in laughter or indignation, beauty or terror ... Man needs the comfort of his own dignity ... And that's what the artisf is for. To give him that comfort.

Robert Nathan

#17. If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does.

Tupac Shakur

#18. The moment when the battle ends is not always a happy one: to fret and strain against evil is an act itself dear to a hearty spirit with convictions.

Robert Nathan

#19. You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

C.S. Lewis

#20. The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

Ajahn Chah

#21. Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

Robert Nathan

#22. Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

Matisyahu

#23. Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

Robert Nathan

#24. She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.

Robert Nathan

#25. I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.'

'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.

Dorothy Dunnett