Nims Quotes & Sayings

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was beautiful and hopeful and hesitant, a heartbreaker who wore his heart on his sleeve. — Cassandra Clare

Only
With words and people and love you move at ease. — John Frederick Nims

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say. — Wynn Bullock

For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break. — John Frederick Nims

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones. — John Frederick Nims

We have millions of ways to lose this precious time - we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves. Meditation — Thich Nhat Hanh

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having! — Marie Corelli

Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously. — Matt Sanchez

This is not a conversation, it is Agnes sending out darts and watching them pierce. — Jessie Burton

A sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight
delight in noting life has its incongruities and absurdities and that we can live in spite of them.
John Frederick Nims (WESTERN WIND: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY) — Margaret Jean Langstaff