Ateina Dievas Quotes & Sayings

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? — W. H. Auden

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren. — Cate Blanchett

Although technology often leads science in discovery, the philosophy of technology is usually drawn from the scientific philosophy of its time. In our time, the technology of machines has drawn its inspiration from mechanics, dealing with complexity by reducing the number of relevant parts. The technology of government, on the other hand, has drawn upon statistical mechanics, creating simplicity by dealing only with people in the structureless mass, as interchangeable units, and taking averages. — Gerald M. Weinberg

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. — Brandi Chastain

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing ... If I perform to myself, then it's this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is some suffering that awaits us all. — Michael Leunig

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison. — G. Frank Lawlis

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft