Most Famous Thai Quotes & Sayings

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force. — Paul Bowles

I hate it when he [Pigpen] goes dead serious. It usually means bad shit is going to go down. — Katie McGarry

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, — Robert Lowell

Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like. — Ellis Paul Torrance

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences. — Rudolf Steiner

Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking. — Elizabeth Bowen

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ... — Andrew Crofts

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision. — William Stafford

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. — Charles Grandison Finney

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. — Alexander Hamilton

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. — Orison Swett Marden