Poeticyouth Quotes & Sayings

Only those who never stand up, never fall down. — Fedor Emelianenko

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot. — Brian P. Cleary

I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients. — Eric Ripert

Every reflection today, whether nihilist or positivist, gives birth, sometimes without knowing it, to
standards that science itself confirms. The quantum theory, relativity, the uncertainty of interrelationships,
define a world that has no definable reality except on the scale of average
greatness, which is our own. The ideologies which guide our world were born in the time of absolute
scientific discoveries. Our real knowledge, on the other hand, only justifies a system of thought based on
relative discoveries. "Intelligence," says Lazare Bickel, "is our faculty for not developing what we think
to the very end, so that we can still believe in reality." Approximative thought is the only creator of
reality. — Albert Camus

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving. — Peter Marshall

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience. — Jack Kornfield

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz

You need fear to create, to live. — Tracie Bennett

Yes, I want to taste you on my tongue as you slide inside my soul. — Ella Frank

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving. — Marc Benioff

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. — Allen Tate

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over. — David Lagercrantz

It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed. — Debra Webb

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am. — Alexandra Stoddard