Herman Melville Anti Transcendentalism Quotes & Sayings

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate. — C. Z. Guest

Whatever happens we mustn't forget how to laugh — Joan Lingard

when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble. — Brian Curtis

Children by the Nazi forces, for slave labor — Edith Hahn Beer

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers. — Michael Bay

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin

As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The idea persists that faith is a remnant of an ancient way of life, a way of knowing that asks for unthinking acceptance of a belief system or adherence to specific dogma. This may be the case for some spiritual traditions, but the Buddha insisted that his disciples investigate his teachings with the powers of reason, test them in the inner laboratory of meditation, and build their faith on a firm foundation of knowledge. As a result, faith in the Dharma implies faith in one's ability to recognize truth when it presents itself and to take responsibility for verifying it through analysis and meditative experience. — Dharma Publishing

I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but also there can be no reason to assume that the result of doing it in these times will give us the balanced picture it gave in Dante's. Dante lived in the thirteenth century, when that balance was achieved by the faith of his age. We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions. Instead of reflecting a balance from the world around him, the novelist now has to achieve one from a felt balance inside himself. — Flannery O'Connor

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
'light and nice,' it's light and truth. — Scott Kenemore

There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN — Katherine S. Van Wormer

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. — Karen Blixen

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. — Alan Brien