Nachmann Quotes & Sayings

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others. — Hettie Jones

How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? — E. M. Forster

If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville. — Billy Rose

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. — Jawaharlal Nehru

But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you. — Rumi

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved. — Jonathan Powell

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV — Peter Matthiessen

[the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country? — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate. — Fanny Fern

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. — Tim Ferriss

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. — Ayn Rand

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. — Frank Tuttle

It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored. — Liesl Shurtliff