Hieratic Scale Quotes & Sayings

The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through the opaque petals; this added something alive to the flower's fragility, to it's ethereal quality, something almost human ,in the way that human can mean frailty and endurance both at the same time. The wind could ruffle these ravishing creations but it couldn't destroy them, or even crush them; they swayed there, dreamily; they seemed ready to fall but held fast to their slim strong branches- ... — Irene Nemirovsky

Henry James's definition of the purpose of a novel: To help the human heart to know itself. — P.D. James

If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. — Edward O. Wilson

Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. — Martin Amis

It's not what happens, it's how we handle what happens, that makes us who we are. — Carol Taylor

Shaking off, with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. — Richard Francis Burton

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together. — Jacob Bronowski

When you plan something, it never works. — Juan Pablo Montoya

All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary. — Deborah Ann Woll

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. — Twyla Tharp

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth. — Jennie Garth

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage

I seek the substantial in life. — Jim Harrison

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build. — George R R Martin