Unrivalled Beauty Quotes

#1. The key point, as Epicurus' disciple Lucretius wrote in verses of unrivalled beauty, was to abandon the anxious and doomed attempt to build higher and higher walls and to turn instead toward the cultivation of pleasure.

Stephen Greenblatt

#2. I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Jamaica Kincaid

#3. I can't say that I mind a little time with you before the world rises.

Megan Shepherd

#4. I like music, indie stuff, but I don't like liking music that other people like.

Esther Earl

#5. When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#6. The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#7. In order to achieve a higher consciousness, one must get lost in love.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

John Berger

#9. Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Jeff Kinney

#10. It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits ...

James K. Polk

#11. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue.

Alain De Botton

#12. I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

Martha Quinn

#13. My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

Zoe Wanamaker