Dulfer Quotes & Sayings

As i emerge on deck the ordered arrangement of the stars meets my eye, unclouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are: stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters; the formidable Work of the Seven Days, into which mankind seems to have blundered unbidden. Or else decoyed. — Joseph Conrad

One must endure without losing tenderness. — Che Guevara

And the most glaring change of all, he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the love he was feeling for Ty was the real thing and that Ty reciprocated that conviction. As — Abigail Roux

Matt smirked. Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for example. Did you know that we subconsciously track the sound properties in poetry? — Jessica Park

When you repeat a behavior over time, your brain learns to automate the process. It's more energy efficient to automatically do something than to manually weigh your options and decide to act the same way every time. When you make a decision very quickly, it is probably from habit, even if you think you're actively deciding. In a way, you made the decision a while ago. — Stephen Guise

There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips. — Hermann Buhl

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame. — Lorrie Moore

The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism. — Seymour Melman

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome. — Bertrand Russell

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours. — Denzel Washington

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler

We are a noisy and blessed little family — Nancy E. Turner

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu