Indentified Quotes & Sayings

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. — John C. Hawkes

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. — Francis Jeffrey

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. — Thomas Hobbes

Nature ... is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them. — Robert Hooke

For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money. — Paul Arden

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place. — Xavier Rudd

Slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle — Don DeLillo

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. — Karin Slaughter

What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery