Investidas Quotes & Sayings

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. — Theodor Adorno

Man must choose his world — A.W. Tozer

Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost. — Mark Dever

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself? — Al Pacino

Judges should interpret the law, not make it. — Lamar S. Smith

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut. — Donna Rice

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. — Vanessa Redgrave

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father. — Maggie Stiefvater

Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan. — Pete Sessions

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. — David Amram

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it ... — Nicholas Sparks

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC. — Gary Reilly

I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that 'if only' is a very dangerous game indeed. — Jojo Moyes

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. — Emile Zola