Jorge Semprun Quotes & Sayings

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up. — Carl Safina

You may hold as many (literature) degrees as your hands (and pockets) may take, but if you have NOT read the book 'Le Grand Voyage' by Jorge Semprun, preferably in French (Yes we can! and I can't speak that language) then you ain't seen nothing yet... — Itzik Sivosh

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them. — Jorge Semprun

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago. — Robert Burns

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. — William James

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own. — Richard Rohr

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Old age is by nature rather talkative. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was easier to be a leader when you weren't surrounded by total idiots. — Robert J. Crane

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today ... 40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. — Richard Patrick

Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love. — Robert Frost

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern
and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn. — Jane Austen