Enjoying The Simple Things Quotes

1. "How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved."
Author: Anne Carson

2. "There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
Author: Augustine Of Hippo

3. "The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
Author: Chinua Achebe

4. "I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then--how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal. A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas. The adult mind can lie with untroubled conscience and a gay composure, but in those days even a small deception scoured the tongue, lashing one against the stake itself."
Author: Daphne Du Maurier

5. "So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."
Author: Dennis Muren

6. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me."
Author: Frida Kahlo

7. "He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles."
Author: Henry David Thoreau

8. "I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here."
Author: Hillary Jordan

9. "Athna, please meet the, uh...Army of Awesome." Apollo arched a brow. "Or whatever they are calling themselves."The goddess of wisdom, strategy, and a whole slew of other things inclined her head. "Nice title."
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

10. "When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

11. "Love could be immortalized. It could be remembered and written forever into the world, inscribed on some inanimate object. It could be wonderful words given by a loved one, or simple letters combined to show an unbroken bond." Alexis from "The Shoreline"
Author: Lindsay Chamberlin

12. "All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
Author: Livy

13. "I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture."
Author: Luce Irigaray

14. "Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness."
Author: Lygia Fagundes Telles

15. "We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
Author: Mike Davidson

16. "Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align."
Author: Nat Faxon

17. "Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people."
Author: Nicholas Sparks

18. "That wasn't it. It didn't occur to you to flex your muscles and take over, to show me you couldhandle things for me. Just like it didn't dent your ego that I knew what I had to do and how to do it.You don't have to flex your muscles because you know they're there. And so do I.""Maybe I just like watching you flex yours." She got up just to crawl into his lap, curl there. "Allmy life I've made certain to hook myself up with weak men. All show, no substance." With her headon his shoulder she could finally rest. "Now look what I've done"
Author: Nora Roberts

19. "If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you."
Author: Pope Benedict XVI

20. "But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
Author: Richard Serra

21. "Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will."
Author: Richelle Mead

22. "In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse."
Author: Robert McKee

23. "It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know."
Author: Sam Harris

24. "What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with."
Author: Sloane Crosley

25. "Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure' which serves the dominant political and economic interests of American society. Derrida is clearly out to do more than develop new techniques of reading: deconstruction is for him an ultimately political practice, an attempt to dismantle the logic by which a particular system of thought, and behind that a whole system of political structures and social institutions, maintains its force. He is not seeking, absurdly, to deny the existence of relatively determinate truths, meanings, identities, intentions, historical continuities; he is seeking rather to see such things as the effects of a wider and deeper history of language, of the unconscious, of social institutions and practices."
Author: Terry Eagleton

26. "I am... me. No matter what I say or do, I'm still me. That 's what Satozuki told me once. The things I feel, the things I do... Being a vampire, Being a man, being betrayed by my mother... when all those things come together, they make up "me." But none of these things taken separately. I'm just me."
Author: Tomu Ohmi

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