Attenberg Full Quotes & Sayings

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. — Stephanie Mills

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down — Edith Wharton

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Imbalanced reactions are discreet indicators of previous scars — S.E. Sever

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one? — Martijn Benders

Wisdom shows you the way; love is the way. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And wasn't life full of layers and nuances, colored all kinds of shades of gray, and the way you felt about something when you were twenty or thirty or forty was not how you would feel about something when you were fifty or sixty or seventy
if only he could explain to her that regret can come at any time in your life, when you least expect it, and then you are stuck with it forever. — Jami Attenberg

Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick... — Andrew O'Hagan

My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps. — J. Tillman

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? — Jami Attenberg

She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond's was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer. — Thomas Hardy