Modernists Informally Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours. — Steve Backley

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. — Douglas Coupland

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like. — Kristen Schaal

To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday. — Yasser Kashef

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. — Henry Van Dyke

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul. — Erik Naggum

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now. — Marisha Pessl

The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning. — Stathis Kouvelakis