Skydivers With Flares Quotes & Sayings

The great events of an age appear, to those living through them, as backdrops only to the vastly more compelling dramas of their own lives, and how could it be otherwise?
In this same way, many of the men and women there in the Hippodrome (and some who were not, but later claimed to have been) would cling to one private image or another of what transpired. They might be entirely different things, varying moments, for each of us has strings within the soul, and we are played upon in different ways, like instruments, and how could it be otherwise? — Guy Gavriel Kay

We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that. — Frederick Lenz

Say that with a sword in your hand, Frey," the small man snarled. "Or do you only fight with smears of shit — George R R Martin

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big. — Donald J. Trump

Which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps. — Jimmy Gownley

As soon as he was gone I blew my breath out and leaned back against the wall. Awkward. First the cop who'd arrested me, then the paramedic who'd kept me from accidentally killing myself. I didn't even want to think what a third thing might be. — Diana Rowland

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained. — Heidi Julavits

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. — Chief Dan George

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. — John Lithgow

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. — John Rawls

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it. — Nick Zano

I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock! — Wally Lamb

The third organizing theme focuses on the relationship between the creator and work in a domain. Early in life, the creator generally discovers an area or object of interest that is consuming. At first the creator seeks to master work in that domain in the manner of others working within the culture; increasingly, however, the very relationship to the domain becomes problematic. The individual then, willingly or unwillingly, feels constrained to try inventing a new symbol system-a system of meaning-that is adequate to the chosen problems or themes and that can eventually make sense to others as well. In each chapter I examine in detail the ways in which a creator forges a new system of meaning in a distinctive domain; it turns out that surprising commonalities hold across the domains as well. — Howard Gardner

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.' — Amy Carmichael