Oorlogen 2020 Quotes & Sayings

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources. — Jorge Luis Borges

A zebra can not change it's spots. — Al Gore

You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful. — Bryant McGill

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one. — Sylvia Earle

Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort its experience of reality, and the consequently unreliable nature of much of its thought. Poetry is the means by which we correct the main tool of that thought, language, for its anthropic distortions: it is language's self-corrective function, and everywhere challenges our Adamite inheritance - the catastrophic, fragmenting design of our conceptualizing machinery - through the insistence on a counterbalancing project, that of lyric unity. — Don Paterson

So I decided I would now be a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men And Who Likes To Wear Lip Gloss And High Heels For Herself And Not For Men. Of — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.
Lily: What's that?
Abram: That Love is the higher path — Jennifer DeLucy

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson

Elias was so close that she could not even draw a breath before his lips were on hers. ... She could not deny that she wanted him with all her heart, in wanton ways and practical ways, day and night. Almost losing him was far scarier than the life-threatening situations she had faced on her own. — Evelyn Pryce

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. — Charles Buxton

DON'T PLAY WITH THE TIME, OTHERWISE THE TIME HAS SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY WITH YOU — Deepak Gupta

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much. — Paula Creamer

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don't feel like reading anymore. — Khadija Rupa

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. — Thomas Huxley