Tempest Act 5 Quotes

#1. existence is humiliation, anyway.

Steve Toltz

#2. There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of 'Scum.' All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

Ray Winstone

#5. Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Jimmy Breslin

#8. If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

Jan Jansen

#10. Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.

Harold Klemp

#12. I'd probably sleep like an angel but dream like the Devil, if the images of Reed didn't leave my sinful mind.

K.L. Middleton

#13. When a woman allows a man to enter her, it is not just a physical act, but a spiritual one, ... We risk everything trying to touch the ineffable by touching each other.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Terry Tempest Williams

#15. The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Matthew Stewart

#17. This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative that defined every breath of the planet's living billions.

Don DeLillo

#18. Bill's eyes met mine, sending my heartbeat racing. It was either the SUV or his royal-blue orbs that absorbed my life force and took my breath away.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#19. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1

Erin Morgenstern

#20. That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain.

Stephen King

#21. I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

Harriet Quimby

#22. I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

Dee Dee Myers

#23. One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Dorothy Nevill

#24. Szeth could feel the Light's warmth, its fury, like a tempest that had been injected directly into his veins. The power of it was invigorating but dangerous. It pushed him to act. To move. To strike.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa Of Avila