Orvokki Flower Quotes & Sayings

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. — David O. Russell

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived. — C.S. Lewis

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring — Bran Ferren

In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations ... , by large law firms ... on more than one occasion(, and) ... by special interests ... (some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct ... — Orrin Hatch

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover. — Henry David Thoreau

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes. — Tom Peters

Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness — Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ... — Neil Jordan

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte

Every concrete object
has abstract value, is timeless
in the dream parallel. — Hilda Doolittle

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could. — Jane Hirshfield