Selyse Florent Quotes & Sayings

... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind. — Martha Gellhorn

Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet. — Carl Sagan

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. — Mencius

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day. — Michael Shnayerson

For leveling really to come about a phantom must first be provided, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-encompassing something that is nothing, a mirage
this phantom is the public. Only a passionless but reflective age can spin this phantom out, with the help of the press when the press itself becomes an abstraction ... [and] the only thing that can keep life going in the prevailing torpor. — Soren Kierkegaard

Writing is not some quiet, closet act. — Patti Smith

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television. — Mark Russell

Faith must be worked at. — James Cook

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi

Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head. — J. Lynn

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.' — Sugar Ray Leonard

Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage. — Auliq Ice

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days. — Loudon Wainwright III