Entristecer Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force. — Dawoud Bey

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good. — Thomas Merton

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive. — Steven L. Peck

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things. — Orison S. Marden

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me. — David Wright

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity. — William Wordsworth

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. — Jorge Luis Borges

It's nice for us to have a fresh face in the camp to bounce things off. — Lawrie Sanchez

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. — Robert Payne

I saw the endless steppes, which, although they appeared to be nothing but desert, were, in fact, full of life, full of creatures hidden in the low scrub. I saw the flat horizon, the vast empty space, heard the sound of horses' hooves, the quiet wind, and then, all around us, nothing, absolutely nothing. It was as if the world had chosen this place to display, at once, its vastness, its simplicity, and its complexity. It was as if we could - and should - become like the steppes - empty, infinite, and, at the same time, full of life. — Paulo Coelho

The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping. — Masha Gessen