Anne Carson Short Talks Quotes & Sayings

Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life ... was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, ... to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner tune. Hema moved gently ... she danced as if her minimalist gestures were shorthand for a much larger, fuller, reckless dance, one that held the whole world together, kept it from extinction. — Abraham Verghese

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. — Scott Stapp

Every time you look at me, you'll remember that I'm half his."
"No." His hand came to the side of her face, his thumb wiping her tears. "You're all mine." His voice was deep and shaken. "Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me. — Lisa Kleypas

An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hard work isn't enough. You got to believe — Derrick Rose

Humility is to spiritual cleanliness what soap is to a complete bathing. EL — Evinda Lepins

Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men. — Amity Shlaes

Write for pleasure and publish for money. — Alexander Pushkin

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest. — Doug Bandow

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. — Hannah Arendt