Quotes & Sayings About Saying Goodbye To College Friends

It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of. — Catherynne M Valente

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

I think there are times in life when you need something to lose yourself in, something to take away the pain, take away the feeling of everything else. Something to numb it. Just for a while. - Nash — M. Leighton

Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. — Suzanne Collins

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life. — Adam Gopnik

Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them. — Stevie Wonder

This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled. — Anthony Doerr

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Brunch is such an odd thing. It was created by fat, lazy people who were too lazy to wake up at a reasonable hour and too fat to wait until the next proper time for dining. — Brian South

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women's belly. — Santosh Kalwar

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to. — Janine Benyus

My real name is Lauren. — Keke Palmer

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity. — Will Smith