Orgresse Quotes & Sayings

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body? What if he had a body? A body with another body inside it in turn, thousands of such bodies within each other like the skins of an onion, receding to some unimaginable ultimum? Was I in turn merely a link in a vast sequence of imponderable beings, the world I knew merely the interior of the being whose inner voice I myself was? Who or what was the core and what monster in what world was the final uncontained colossus? God? Nothing? Was I receiving these wild thoughts from Lower Down or were they brewing newly in me to be transmitted Higher Up? — Flann O'Brien

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. — Ernest Hemingway,

You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there! — Sarra Manning

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. — Seamus Heaney

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters. — Agnetha Faltskog

Who would bring light must endure burning. — David Zindell

I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight. — Sean Faris

As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of the ocean. An imagination is a powerful thing. — Shelley Coriell

There are six teachings that you might misinterpret: patience, yearning, excitement, compassion, priorities, and joy. The misinterpretations are: You're patient when it means you'll get your way but not when your practice brings up challenges. You yearn for worldly things but not for an open heart and mind. You get excited about wealth and entertainment but not about your potential for enlightenment. You have compassion for those you like and admire but not for those you don't. Worldly gain is your priority rather than cultivating loving-kindness and compassion. You feel joy when your enemies suffer, but you do not rejoice in others' good fortune. — Pema Chodron

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. — Adrian Cronauer

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. — Sylvia Earle

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate. — Roxane Gay