Piritta Van Quotes & Sayings

I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like. — Christopher Hitchens

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony. — John McCain

Why has he taken this job? ... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing. — J.M. Coetzee

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. — Rachel Naomi Remen

What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass. — Gerhard Richter

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things. — Marcus Aurelius

Instead of focusing on how your feet hurt and your load is so heavy, look at how far you've gone already! Look up to the peak and remember the dreams that started you walking in the first place. — Kelsey Humphreys

Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden. — Henry Mitchell

Every person has their own colour. — Haruki Murakami

The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues. — Chuck Todd

If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving. — Frederick Buechner

Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker. — Jess Row

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment. — Michael Owen

It's like John Lennon writing with ... Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney. — Rainbow Rowell