Erich Wolfgang Korngold Quotes & Sayings

The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much, at least, in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy. — Edmund Burke

We're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. — Douglas Rushkoff

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others. — Richard Branson

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year. — Guy Forget

How could an article about computers begin with such an idiotic opening line: Where is Slovenia? — Paulo Coelho

Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life. — Emily Dickinson

I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under. — Karen Marie Moning

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me. — Juliet Aubrey

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims. — Sydney J. Harris

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual. — Taiye Selasi