Embark Related Quotes & Sayings

Why should color, of all things, be at the center of so much crossfire? Perhaps because in meddling with such a deep and seemingly instinctive area of perception, culture camouflages itself as nature more successfully there than in any other area of language. There is nothing remotely abstract, theoretical, philosophical, hypothetical, or any other -cal, so it seems, about the difference between yellow and red or between green and blue. — Guy Deutscher

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness. — Mao Zedong

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over ... — Guus Hiddink

Are you afraid of your own shadow? — Victoria Schwab

But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling but bad for decision making, and it is frightening to look back and realize, were it not for that moment, all of our lives would have been so different. maybe that's revisionist history. Maybe it's me making origin myths. But I can't shake the conviction that Jason's boyfriend's friend's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend changed the world. — Laurie Frankel

Age isn't as important so long as you are surrounded by people you love, doing things you passionately believe in. — Richard Branson

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued. — Bertrand Russell

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long ... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. — Sharon Olds

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;
I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life ... I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me. — Erich Maria Remarque

Davis was a beautiful black vampire, and Killer had loved him. — Anne Rice

You can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. — G. Willow Wilson