Foals Band Quotes & Sayings

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph. — Elmore Leonard

Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections - a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around - it didn't seem enough to last a whole lifetime. — Jennifer E. Smith

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. — Virginia Woolf

Certainly she no longer thinks of the future, because every day the future proves itself to be a duplicate of the present. So instead she roots through the past. — David R. Gillham

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was. — Nikki Sanderson

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. — Joey Comeau

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. — David McCullough

Yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home. — Amitav Ghosh

Until the sun falls from the sky. — Kristen Ashley