Dead End 2003 Quotes & Sayings

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me. — Joe Cocker

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam. — Derrick Jensen

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. — Alfred North Whitehead

She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life. — Barbara Delinsky

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — John M. Corse

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it. — Martina Hingis

There can be no meaning in what will someday be lost. Passing glory is not true glory at all. — Haruki Murakami

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. — Tony Juniper

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore. — Daryl Hannah

Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation. — Vincent De Paul

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens

Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love. — Jim Butcher

[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..] — Douglas Adams