Para Dance Company Quotes & Sayings

We approach our lives on different trajectories, each of us spinning in our own separate, shining orbits. What gives this life its resonance is when those trajectories cross and we become engaged with each other, for as long or as fleetingly as we do. There's a shared energy then, and it can feel as though the whole universe is in the process of coming together. I live for those times. No one is truly ever "just passing through." Every encounter has within it the power of enchantment, if we're willing to look for it. — Richard Wagamese

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. — Elizabeth Kenny

Even summarized, it sounded nuttier than a squirrel turd at a peanut festival. — Laura Kaye

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. — Kurt Vonnegut

To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere. — C.S. Lewis

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. — Allan Sherman

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you — Sebastian Faulks

Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic. — William Deresiewicz

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. — Jonathan Lethem

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. — Edward Snowden

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings. — Dean Jackson

What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did. — Patrick Ness

There is a river whose waters give
immortality; somewhere there must be
another river whose waters take it away. The
number of rivers is not infinite; an immortal
traveler wandering the world will someday have
drunk from them all. — Jorge Luis Borges