Removedness Quotes & Sayings

The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.' — Laozi

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. — Og Mandino

Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak about poetry so abstractly because we all tend to be poor poets. The aesthetic phenomenon is fundamentally simple: if someone
simply possesses the capacity to see a living game going on continually and to live all the time
surrounded by hordes of ghosts, then the man is a poet; if someone simply feels the urge to change himself and to speak out from other bodies and souls, then that person is a dramatist. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How long does it take for a star to collapse? How many trillions of years? — Rainbow Rowell

A committed citizens can move a country. — Lailah Gifty Akita

COFFEE Ingredients : 1 cup brewed organic coffee 1 tablespoon organic grass-fed butter 1 tablespoon MCT oil (I prefer Dave Asprey's Brain Octane) 1 teaspoon cocoa powder A generous sprinkling of cinnamon Method — Joanna Alderson

Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It's about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of themselves, but that you have to give them a chance. — E.M. Garver

For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. — Halsey

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well. — Bob Jones III

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended. — Theric Jepson

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English. — Chinua Achebe

So you get less shy about how hard you have to try. And you don't bother hiding your Kotter tapes. Sure, they expose some of my appalling deficiencies. But my appalling deficiencies are all I have to offer. Is there such a thing as romantic love that does not depend on someone embracing my deficiencies? I hope I will never find out. — Rob Sheffield

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves