Jb Archibald Macleish Quotes & Sayings

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they'd loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? — Margaret Atwood

Dharma is the study of what is, and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself. — Pema Chodron

I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face. — James Clavell

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. — William Booth

If you know the why, you can live any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure. — Janet Perry

Anyone who doesn't design, accepts to be designed. — Giulio Carlo Argan

Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any "meaning" in suffering, indeed in existence. One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He was not a scholar, and he did not have the temperament of one who finds knowledge an end in itself. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape. — Kurt Busch