Potager Garden Quotes & Sayings

A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe. — Henry David Thoreau

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries. — Boris Beizer

Besides, I was myself the one who spoke to me. I sat and stood at the same time, hushed and spoke and formed two persons from my own alone. It was, wasn't it, as if with the greatest levity and astonishing velocity thinkable one stood up from where one sat to stand speaking to the person one was a moment before and now no longer was, and yet remained that person still, because one is seeing oneself in imagination, which enriches life, which I employ as often as I want or can or may, which throws me off balance and always restores it, which is the continuous emotion for the sake of which I always and never go too far, which as today for instance, multiplies me or at least doubles me now and then, which is strange and is pleasurable and keeps me active and therefore rejuvenated and foolish, so that one can experience being pleasured alive, so that it won't be all too self-evident, and not too lonesome, either. — Robert Walser

He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers. — Bette Lee Crosby

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. — James Dickey

There comes a time in everyone's life - and I do mean in everyone's life - when you ask yourself what it is that you've been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you've been doing all your life, you've been doing it wrong. Dead wrong ... Son, you want that realization to hit you when you're 70? Or 50? Or when you're still young, with your whole life still ahead of you? — Ali Sheikh

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them. — Mark Zuckerberg