Short Creases Quotes & Sayings

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone. — D.H. Lawrence

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards, we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects. Once we lived in what we saw; now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions - objects, successively tumble in, and God is but one of its ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature. — Aimee Garcia

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free — Henry Rollins

Failure will never feel good, but be unafraid of it and you will eventually achieve anything you work your ass for. — Ben Tolosa

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature. — Frederick C. Beiser

The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle. — Mordechai Anielewicz

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions. — Vladimir Lenin

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world. — Adam Levine

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial. — Jerry Della Femina

Money must exist before it can be turned into capital. — David Harvey

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. — Jeanne Voelker

We can't control death. There's nothing either of us can do to avoid it or to hold it off. All we can control is how we live our lives before it comes for us. — J.A. Redmerski

All's well that ends well.'
'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.
Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?"
Aomame shook her head.
'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said.
Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.'
Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't'
he made a falling gesture with his finger
'the end is right there. — Haruki Murakami

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock. — Jan Jansen