Durcan Essay Quotes & Sayings

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law. — Kevin DeYoung

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. — Henri Bergson

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe. — Orrin Woodward

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass

On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn't. Without even noticing what you're doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you - you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead. — Banana Yoshimoto

I've decided to be selfish and keep you all to myself for a while. — Dorothy Garlock

Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ... — Mehek Bassi

I simply believe that you should never tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy,' said Blume. — Conor Fitzgerald

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it.
Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book — Colum McCann

Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth's ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today. — Kat Lahr

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage. — Alexis De Tocqueville

We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and never go out to face the world and brave the storm, what good will they be to the Chinese people? None at all, and we do not need such people as Party members. We Communists ought to face the world and brave the storm the great world of mass struggle and the mighty storm of mass struggle. — Mao Zedong

It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching. — Ethan Hawke

I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year. — Hugh Laurie