Impended Quotes & Sayings

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13. — Liz Goldwyn

Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space ... We are destined to explore and colonize the universe. — Robert McCall

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent. — Beryl Markham

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be. — Deepak Chopra

I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over. — Andre Agassi

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. — N.K. Jemisin

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. — Sivananda Saraswati

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing — Eric Cantona

If I could
choose, a place to die,
it would never have been in your arms, old darling — Sharon Olds

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause. — Charles Handy

Have you even held a command? Nikolai asked. I'd once led a seminar of junior mapmakers, but I didn't think that was what he meant. — Leigh Bardugo

I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome ... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained. — Patricia Rozema

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. — David Whyte