Costurando Retalhos Quotes & Sayings

And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it. — Cornel West

No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave. — Soren Kierkegaard

Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ... — John Geddes

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Reduce the light, increase the concentration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever should I do if anything were to ... But, there, thinking's no good to any one - is it, madam? — Katherine Mansfield

Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds. — Antoine Thomson D'Abbadie

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress. — Ferdinand Buisson

Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. — William Shakespeare