Lessismore Quotes & Sayings

If the stars are sublime, why should the earth be therefore petty? It is part of a sublime system. If the earth is to be called petty, then the stars must be called petty too. They may not even be inhabited. Perhaps they mean the movement of the vast system going on for ever, while men die. The indestructibility of matter. But if matter is indestructible, it is not what the people who use the phrase mean by matter. If matter is not conscious, man is more than matter. If a small, no matter how small, conscious thing is called petty in comparison with big, no matter how big, unconscious things, everything is made a question of size, which is absurd.... — Dorothy M. Richardson

For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And that is precisely why the appearance of repetition doesn't exist for him in history; because the moments in the course of history which matter most to him become moments of the present through their index as "fore-history," and change their characteristics according to the catastrophic or triumphant determination of that present. — Walter Benjamin

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici

It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a single individual. — William Faulkner

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart. — Lisa Kleypas

A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival ... (Here be Dragons) — Sharon Kay Penman

Filmmaking is a real craft. — Sean Durkin

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give — Gloria Gaynor

At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled. — William Peter Blatty

The Army can be family. The Army can be religion. — Adnan Sarwar

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good. — Chief Joseph