Frieseke Frederick Quotes & Sayings

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten. — James P. Carse

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent") — Jhumpa Lahiri

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there. — Frederick Carl Frieseke

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams. — Glenda Millard

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it. — Anna Politkovskaya

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period ... — Frederick Carl Frieseke

For people my age, including me, if we don't post it, it never happened. People's — Samantha Hunt

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value? — Frederick Carl Frieseke

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. — Mariel Hemingway

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? — Frederick Carl Frieseke

The key to your universe is that you can choose. — Frederick Carl Frieseke

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances. — Stephen Chbosky

Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless. — Frederick Carl Frieseke

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. — Terry Pratchett