Patmore Water Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. — Unknown

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. — Herbert Read

Christian Grey just sent me a winkey ... Oh my. I fire up Google. — E.L. James

I have only one life story to tell, but Gerda must have several, for although by and large I know her past and know enough people who have known her from a child, when she talks about herself there are an infinite number of deviations, indeed not even deviations, because there is no line from which she could deviate, there are simply a large number of versions and interpretations of her life. When she is in a good mood and becomes talkative, she no sooner thinks of a detail than her life story takes a different turn. — Ingeborg Bachmann

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. — Dalai Lama XIV

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands. — Constantin Brancusi

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. — Joseph Addison

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenents of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand yearsm have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that. — Kimora Lee Simmons

I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! — Coventry Patmore

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. — Federica Montseny

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. — Oscar Wilde

Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest. — Robin Sharma

If darkness is really not darkness at all, but rather, the absence of light, then my flaws are not really flaws at all, but rather, the absence of you. ~ Christopher Poindexter — Beth Hyland

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one. — Og Mandino