Unpeople Quotes

#1. CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

William Shakespeare

#2. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.

Amit Abraham

#3. Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

William Gibson

#4. It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Dieter Rams

#6. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Some Of Us Were Made For War. Jack Hammerson, Arcadian Genesis, 2012.

Greig Beck

#8. Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

Ken Robinson

#9. It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

Martin Seligman

#10. It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience ... .

Mark Epstein