Isamu Noguchi Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it. — Jacques Chirac

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. — Randy Quaid

They got to him," Ewan said, needlessly. "Must have been a midnight snack," Tim said, smiling grimly. Ewan frowned. "Don't be so morbid. — Guido Baechler

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time. — Laurie Gough

Surely it is foolish to hate facts. The struggle against the past is a futile struggle. Acceptance seems so much more like wisdom. I know all this. And yet there are some facts that one must never, never accept. This is not merely an emotional matter. The reason that one must hate certain facts is that one must prepare for the possibility of their return. If the past were really past, then one might permit oneself an attitude of acceptance, and come away from the study of history with a feeling of serenity. But the past is often only an earlier instantiation of the evil in our hearts. It is not precisely the case that history repeats itself. We repeat history - or we do not repeat it, if we choose to stand in the way of its repetition. For this reason, it is one of the purposes of the study of history that we learn to oppose it. — Leon Wieseltier