Schonfeld Tripods Quotes

#1. He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S.J Perelman

#2. Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

#3. There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I believe that vulnerability - the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy.

Brene Brown

#5. THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM
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Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Anne Carson

#6. Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.

Jane Kang

#7. I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

Ma Jian

#8. Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one ... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Maybe I can be good for Zeph. Maybe she can be the woman for me. We'll be two meth heads trying to keep each other clean. What could go wrong with that?

Gisele Walko

#10. So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

Amy Tan

#11. If i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow

Rumi

#12. Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.

William Baziotes

#13. Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

Peter Sarsgaard

#14. And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.

Gladys Taber

#15. There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.

Phil Klay