Graciela Iturbide Famous Quotes & Sayings

Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out. — Alethea Black

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. — Chuck Palahniuk

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt. — Charles Darwin

You get so much out of the extra effort that you put into looking your best. — Dania Ramirez

We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map of the extreme wealth of poverty. These speaking maps of a new topography will be in fact the first realization of 'human geography.' On them we will replace oil-deposits with the contours of layers of untapped pedestrian consciousness. — Tom McDonough

Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others. — Shantideva

You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet. — Xenophon

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general. — Zoe Bell

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance. — Jason Upton

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. — Ann Voskamp

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. — Peter Zumthor

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut. — Lawrence Lessig

Months ago, I'd painted him as the dragon. Never once did I imagine he was the shining knight the entire time. — Rachel Van Dyken

they had no way of reckoning longitude. — Anonymous

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function. — Myles Munroe