Divinations Stairwell Quotes & Sayings

Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking. — Mhairi McFarlane

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. So. — Margaret Atwood

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need. — John Lasseter

Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are. It's not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. — Sarah Dunn

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. — Charles Baudelaire

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. — William Cowper

It is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth." - Ratan Tata — Suresh Lulla

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra. — Daniel Dennett

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free. — Rita Mae Brown

We may mount from this dull Earth; and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt. So, like Travellers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing. We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorn'd as well as our own. — Christiaan Huygens

This means flow packs a double punch: it doesn't just increase our decision-making abilities - it increases our creative decision-making abilities. Dramatically. — Steven Kotler

China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010. — Hu Jintao

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk