Conical Shape Quotes & Sayings

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad. — Olivia Sudjic

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life. — James Baldwin

Life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. — Lauren Groff

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption. — John Calvin

It lets us hear the clanging air of history and slips the links of our own epoch onto that long concatenation. — Alena Graedon

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. — David Carradine

It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges. — Lauren Groff

I have absolutely no ambition. My goal has already been exceeded. — Shamir

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. — David K. Shipler

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. — C.S. Lewis

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me. — Ashraf Barhom