Desailly Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn't racing, and it wasn't pounding ... It was dancing. Singing. — Julia Quinn

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it. — John Crowe Ransom

I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. — Lord Acton

I definitely think 'Minecraft' is a freak thing. There's no way you could replicate it intentionally. — Markus Persson

Late in the night I pay
the unrest I own
to the life that has never lived
and cannot live now.
What the world could be
is my good dream
and my agony when, dreaming it,
I lie awake and turn
and look into the dark.
I think of a luxury
in the sturdiness and grace
of necessary things, not
in frivolity. That would heal
the earth, and heal men.
But the end, too, is part
of the pattern, the last
labor of the heart:
to learn to lie still,
one with the earth
again, and let the world go. — Wendell Berry

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. — Marilynne Robinson

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? — Arthur Rimbaud

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? — Burt Lancaster

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. — Joan Van Ark

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own. — John Quincy Adams