Durn The Hungerer Quotes & Sayings

I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done." — R. C. Lehmann

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. — Wallace Stevens

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you. — Christine Lagarde

He was going to have permanent scars in his palms in the shape of his finger nails if he wasn't careful. His hand was forgetting how to form any shape but a frustrated fist. — Kim Dare

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. — Frederick Douglass

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that. — Richard Greenberg

We've heard so much about strikes," he said, "and about the dependence of the uncommon man upon the common. We've heard it shouted that the industrialist is a parasite, that his workers support him, create his wealth, make his luxury possible - and what would happen to him if they walked out? Very well. I propose to show to the world who depends on whom, who supports whom, who is the source of wealth, who makes whose livelihood possible and what happens to whom when who walks out. — Ayn Rand

How do you help anyone die? I read with amazement the stories of people who reached a certain point of illness or of age and decided it was time to die. It seems the height of both courage and cruelty. Courage because anything so counterintuitive takes courage. And cruelty because it leaves your children wondering if they did something wrong. There's no act you can initiate that doesn't involve other people. We are all interwoven. Even the most rational suicide may come as a blow to someone else. — Erica Jong

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. — Imelda Marcos

Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy. — Rajneesh