Ladytron Seventeen Quotes & Sayings

Shopping for shoes has nothing to do with need, and everything to do with lust. Do you know how many pairs I own?"
"No."
"Neither do I! — Nora Roberts

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. — Martin Heidegger

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation. Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm. Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm. I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk. When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is also a victory to know when to retreat. — Erno Paasilinna

Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream. — Shaun Hick

I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model. — Rajashree Choudhury

People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

You may not need to tell me, I can hear your song better when your voice is silent and your heart is singing. — Debasish Mridha

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. — Hilary Mantel

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care. — Martin Fowler

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do. — Richard Branson

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me. — Sonia Braga