Wrests Quotes

#1. Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

Franz Kafka

#3. Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one whokills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

Anton Chekhov

#4. Do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. If the heart could think it would stop beating.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

Susan Orlean

#7. The most important thing is not life, but the good life.

Plato

#8. People die, but money never does.

Penelope Lively

#9. I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations.

Steve Daines

#10. I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Courtney Gains