Downed Trees Quotes & Sayings

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. — Hermann Hesse

A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging at the downed game so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong. To be more precise: bird cries, for in this setting, left unfinished and abandoned by God in wrath, the birds do not sing; they shriek in pain, and confused trees tangle with one another like battling Titans, from horizon to horizon, in a steaming creation still being formed. Fog-panting and exhausted they stand in this unreal misery - and I, like a stanza in a poem written in an unknown foreign tongue, am shaken to the core. — Werner Herzog

You attract whatever you focus your full attention on. That thing can be good or bad. The universe doesn't discriminate between the two. It will bring you whatever you think about. This is the Law of Attraction. — Read Dragon Publishing

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot. — John Updike

I like to give opinions, not suggestions — John Wooden

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams. — Shannon Miller

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why ! — Bob Marley

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy. — Billy Eichner

There's a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he's African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it. — Oprah Winfrey

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion. — Publius Papinius Statius

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. — Juliet Stevenson

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv. — Henry Rollins