Doiseaux Quotes & Sayings

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much. — Timothy Snyder

Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader imaginatively to construct their meaning. The most widespread of these figurative descriptions are what are known as kennings. Kennings often occur in compounds: for example, hronrad (whale-road) or swanrad (swan- road) meaning 'the sea'; banhus (bone-house) meaning the 'human body'. Some kennings involve borrowing or inventing words; others appear to be chosen to meet the alliterative requirement of a poetic line, and as a result some kennings are difficult to decode, leading to disputes in critical interpretation. But kennings do allow more abstract concepts to be communicated by using more familiar words: for example, God is often described as moncynnes weard ('guardian of mankind'). — Ronald Carter

It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making. — Rebecca Stead

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. — Rumi

I went down like a tray of dishes — Blake Bailey

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas. — Jeff Dunham

I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are. — Debasish Mridha

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. — Virginia Woolf

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult. — Terry Pratchett

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people. — Jamaica Kincaid

God bless the Reference Librarians — James Lee Burke

Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: 'Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Alain De Botton