Headpieces Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — John Berger

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. — Stephen Kinzer

Unspoken words between you and I,
Present in the eyes of knowing,
Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,
I am yours. — Truth Devour

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws. — Paul Davies

How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth. — Marilyn Nelson

Only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the work of language. This not only builds the 'house of being' - Heidegger took this phrase from Zarathustra's animals, which inform the convalescent: 'the house of being rebuilds itself eternally'; it is also the vehicle for the tendencies to run away from that house with which, by means of its inner surpluses, humans move towards the open. It need hardly be explained why the oldest parasite in the world, the world above, only appears with the second transcendence. — Peter Sloterdijk

I have got a reputation to protect ... — Ian McLeod

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with. — Dan Chaon

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being. — Andrei Makine

Streets closed, emptied by force Guns at corners
with open mouths and eyes Memory speaks:
You cannot live on me alone
you cannot live without me
I'm nothing if I'm just a roll of film
stills from a vanished world
fixed lightstreaked mute
left for another generation's
restoration and framing I can't be restored or framed
I can't be still I'm here
in your mirror pressed leg to leg beside you
intrusive inappropriate bitter flashing
with what makes me unkillable though killed — Adrienne Rich

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. — Orison Swett Marden

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say. — Oliver Stone

Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art. — Maria Popova

Dogs, I had reflected, are lucky to have shorter memories and fewer apprehensions about the future - they know how to enjoy the present. — Margret Wittmer