Czerwinski Douglas Quotes & Sayings

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody. — Karl Marx

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction
so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. — Jon Meacham

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan

Genius is fostered by industry. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

[ ... ] the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order. — Victor Hugo

Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. — Miranda July

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone De Beauvoir

It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just ... still alive. — Isaac Marion

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. — John Milton

Wait until you're old, Nora," she said, "and then you'll know. It's the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything. — Colm Toibin

I didn't know with certainty what to say about the large world, and didn't care to risk speculating. And I still don't. That we all look at it from someplace, and in some hopeful-useful way, is about all I found I could say
my best, most honest effort. And that isn't enough for literature, though it didn't bother me much. Nowadays, I'm willing to say yes to as much as I can: yes to my town, my neighborhood, my neighbor, yes to his car, her lawn and hedge and rain gutters. Let things be the best they can be. Give us all a good night's sleep until it's over. — Richard Ford

I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.' — Savannah Guthrie