Demnitate Eseu Quotes & Sayings

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. — Terry Teachout

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money. — James Dyson

Where do I belong in this country? Where is home? — Wallace Stegner

Beldin sighed. "Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a
group of sheephenders below the snow line."
"Shepherds, uncle," she corrected.
"It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word,"
"Shepherd sounds nicer."
"Nicer." He snorted. "Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse.
Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate. — David Eddings

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment. — Swami Vivekananda

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean? — Neko Case

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. — Umberto Eco

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them ... — Victoria Moran

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake. — Kobo Abe

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian — Jessica Khoury

You are the greatest achievement of your own life. — Sarah Rees Brennan

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not. — Trai Byers