Autrui Levinas Quotes & Sayings

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' — Robert M. Hutchins

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip — Erma Bombeck

We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill, today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill, today. — Robert Hamner

A neutral place. The chances of finding one these days are slim, maybe even slimmer than Archie's pinball trick. The sheer quantity of shit that must be wiped off the slate if we are to start again as new. Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And not only must the place be neutral, but the messenger who takes you to the place, and the messenger who sends the messenger. There are no people or places like that left ... — Zadie Smith

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty. — BikeSnobNYC

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat. — John Barrasso

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. — Charlotte Bronte

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. — Steve Zahn

I'm going to bury myself so far inside you and spill my seed, everyone will know you're mine. — Aria Cole

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing. — Harold Bloom

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army — Honore De Balzac

In 1978 zip or postcodes were introduced in the Netherlands; they consist of four numbers followed by a space and then to capital letters and are replaced before the name of the town... they referred to the city block in a given street in which the house occurs and thus the Dutch postal code book is the size of a telephone book. — Bruce Donaldson

He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye. — Ernest Hemingway,

[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt. — Charles Krauthammer

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. — Lawrence Durrell