Glimpsable Quotes & Sayings

No matter how they abuse you; toleration is how you abuse yourself. — Steve Maraboli

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space. — Anne Carson

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do. — Nalini Singh

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. — John F. Kennedy

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it — Marcus Buckingham

The power of imagination is infinite. — John Muir

The war and the revolution are inseparable. — George Orwell

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance. — Peter Hedges

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true. — Lindsey Vonn

These irresistible men look so much more delicious than they taste. — Kathryn Walker

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning. But we are characters who do not exist, in a story composed by no one from nothing. Can anything be more pitiable? No wonder we all are grieving. — Robert Coover