2020 Recap Quotes & Sayings

I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious. — Lawrence Durrell

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. — Dolly Parton

I could feel it in myself. I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away ... I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. The pronoun 'we' itself seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces. — Jerry Spinelli

The refugee in Syria doesn't benefit more if you conserve your kindness only for her and withhold it from your neighbor who's going through a divorce. — Brene Brown

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure. — Jason Shawn Alexander

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. — Frederick William Robertson

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. — Robert Breault

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense. — Viggo Mortensen

Nevertheless, this anger was inside him - I believe constantly. Like the house that was well ordered and yet falling apart from within, the man himself was calm, almost supernatural in his imperturbability, and yet prey to a roiling, unstoppable force of fury within. All his life he strove to avoid a confrontation with this force, nurturing a kind of automatic behavior that would allow him to pass to the side of it. Reliance on fixed routines freed him from the necessity of looking into himself when decisions had to be made; the cliche was always quick to come to his lips ("A beautiful baby. Good luck with it") instead of words he had gone out and looked for. All this tended to flatten him out as a personality. But at the same time, it was also what saved him, the thing that allowed him to live. To the extent that he was able to live — Paul Auster

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped. — Jill Stein

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite — John Frusciante

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. — Emily Greene Balch

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? — Jandy Nelson