Kiffy Purvis Quotes & Sayings

Could it be that Americans are a restless people, a mobile people, never satisfied with where they are as a matter of selection? The pioneers, the immigrants who peopled the continent, were the restless ones in Europe. The steady rooted ones stayed home and are still there. But every one of us ... are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Wouldn't it be unusual if we had not inherited this tendency? And the fact is that we have. — John Steinbeck

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time. — Shunryu Suzuki

When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full. — Rumer Godden

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. — Marshall McLuhan

In order to penetrate the subject matter there must be, in addition, the love of teaching and the love of learning, the give and take between teacher and student, example and imitation. Beyond the technical problem, there is a personal encounter similar to that of a savage training his sons in the use of bow and arrow, or of an animal guiding its young. I am firmly convinced that one of the high orders of the universe is a pedagogical order. — Ernst Junger

It is best to have a strong curiosity, weak affiliations. — E.B. White

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. — William Baldwin

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. — David Mitchell

We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever. — Ashley Purdy

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home. — Edward Young

I don't bring religion into the square. — Tony Abbott

World" as thought through Heidegger's work would be the mutually achieved composite of meaning and matter; what is disclosed - that is, what presents itself to us through our doing, saying, and making - is disclosed as already fitted into material environments and holistic forms of significance. — Thomas Rickert

He decided that the time had come to decide what he would make of his life. He went, that night, to the roof of his tenement and looked at the lights of the city, the city where he did not run things. He let his eyes move slowly from the windows of the sagging hovels around him to the windows of the mansions in the distance. There were only lighted squares hanging in space, but he could tell from them the quality of the structures to which they belonged; the lights around him looked muddy, discouraged; those in the distance were clean and tight. He asked himself a single question: what was there that entered all those houses, the dim and the brilliant alike, what reached into every room, into every person? They all had bread. Could one rule men through the bread they bought? They had shoes, they had coffee, they had ... The course of his life was set. — Ayn Rand

Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special ready doesn't mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don't treat her right — Andrew Kaufman