Sophocles Ajax Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists. — Frederick Lenz

As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships. — Linda Sunshine

Gratitude isn't a gift to the receiver, it's a gift to the giver. — Kim Holden

Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of "fittingness": that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it
no matter how small or insignificant both might be
are matched exactly, are fitting. This, Claire argued, is when we become truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful ... In Claire's presence, you were not faulty or badly designed, no, not at all. You were the fitting receptacle and instrument of your talents and beliefs and desires. — Zadie Smith

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. — Jonah Lehrer

[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye. — Daido Moriyama

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls. — Robert Browning

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it. — Steve Martin

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much. — Katherine Paterson

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. — Leonard Susskind

Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know. — Ralph Bellamy

Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The — Seth Godin

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees. — Bob Nelson

Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it." "Uncle John, y'u talk so - so — Zane Grey

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her. — Lisa Lutz