Diederick Opperman Quotes & Sayings

The trick is to keep cutting the present off from the past. In this way, you can try to deny the fact that the past is what we are made of, and that there would be no present without it. One of the several problems with this way of living is that it is not clear how what is reborn every moment can be said to be you. Personal identity involves a degree of continuity. — Terry Eagleton

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. — Hal Borland

That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there. — Sam A. Patel

In essence, we live only to die; the Christian dies only to live; it is a celebration of life, not death. — Danny L. Deaube

There is always a danger that in our asceticism we shall be tempted to imitate the sufferings of Christ. This is a pious but godless ambition, for beneath it there always lurks the notion that it is possible for us to step into Christ's shoes and suffer as he did and kill the old Adam. We are then presuming to undertake that bitter work of eternal redemption which Christ himself wrought for us. The motive of asceticism was more limited--to equip us for better service and deeper humiliation. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong. — Liu Cixin

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing. — Anne Tyler

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy. — Sandra Harner

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you. — Pete Townshend

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it. — Peter Hook

Why, this is very midsummer madness. — William Shakespeare

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one. — Edward O. Wilson

Listen, um ... in case you even feel like saying hello ... ' I said, and I handed something else to her
My disposable camera. Twelve moments of my own.
She took it, and smiled like she understood, then looked at me once more. It was a look of recognition, something slowly dawning on her, my face meaning more to her then it had.
'I knew I knew you,' she said.
'I think I knew I knew you, too, I said. — Danny Wallace

It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well. — Jean Alesi

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. — Peter Hook