Colonnes De Buren Quotes & Sayings

Is it not beautiful to discover a new path to your destiny and decorate it with the beauty of your imagination? — Debasish Mridha

She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now. — Jeanette Winterson

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. — Cormac McCarthy

It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth. — Paolo Bacigalupi

nascent, lifeless earth out of cosmic space - their — H.P. Lovecraft

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway. — Bryce Dallas Howard

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear. — Lisa Scottoline

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. — Francis De Sales

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But stories are just tools. They shouldn't become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars 'to make a lot of money for the cooperation' or 'to protect the national interest'. Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our life in their service. — Yuval Noah Harari

I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video. — Jodi Benson

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far. — Liane Balaban

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent. — Edward Norton

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences. — Antonio Damasio

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr