Countermovement Jump Quotes & Sayings

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future ... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.' — Albert Camus

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. — Pierre Bourdieu

If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere. — Marilyn Monroe

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow. — Steve Martin

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice — Nhat Hanh

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. — Steven Pressfield

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values
looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous, .. It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another. — Madonna Ciccone

I've always thought there was a fair amount of dishonesty involved in politeness. — Lisa Kleypas

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about. — Sarah Dessen

It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know. — Annie Potts

Are you safe?"

"Yes, Skye." I leaned down, holding her eyes with my own. "I promise you, I am safe. — Michele G. Miller

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough. — Saina Nehwal

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. — E.B. White