Huggan Graham Quotes & Sayings

Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the full, not goading oneself madly into burning it up fast and using it with a view to an all too imminent future, thus destroying it in the hope that life
the whole of life
may pass swiftly. — Claudio Magris

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world. — Koichi Tohei

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee. — John Zachary Young

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants. — Holly Black

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age. — Shiri Appleby

I know what she is talking about.
Namely, everything I refused to talk about, in court: what it is like to know that you are a target, because of the color of your skin. What it means to work hard, to be an impeccable employee, and have none of that make a difference in the face of prejudice. — Jodi Picoult

Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it's seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don't share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit. — Richard Flanagan