Secessions Quotes & Sayings

I invoke the other's protection, the other's return: let the other appear, take me away, like a mother who comes looking for her child, from this worldly brilliance, from this social infatuation, let the other restore to me "the religious intimacy, the gravity" of the lover's world. (X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.) — Roland Barthes

Claudette turned her arms upward to show us her tattooed wrists. One held the skull and crossbones of the Wilted Rose. The other resembled the flag which adorned the mast above us. A ship's wheel with two swords crossed through it. — Freedom Matthews

I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time. — Allison Tolman

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. — Thomas Mann

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight. — Joe Donnelly

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? — Rabbi Hillel

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation. — Jean Wilson

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. — Gloria Estefan

Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward. — Kevin Brooks

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. — Tom Lehrer

For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself. — Bertrand De Jouvenel