Spellbound Nature Quotes & Sayings

Do something every day to market each of your books for three years. — John Kremer

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in. — Carl Sandburg

In precisely the same way, the individual is separate from his universal environment only in name. When this is not recognized, you have been fooled by your name. Confusing names with nature, you come to believe that having a separate name makes you a separate being. This is - rather literally - to be spellbound. — Alan W. Watts

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up on it. — Anna Quindlen

During our ecstasies in the Himalayan caves, tigers will be spellbound and sit around us like tame pussies," my spirits froze; beads of perspiration formed on my brow. "What then?" I thought. "If the vicious nature of the tigers be not changed through the power of our spiritual trance, shall they treat us with the kindness of house cats?" In my mind's eye, I already saw myself the compulsory inmate of some tiger's stomach-entering there not at once with the whole body, but by installments of its several parts! — Anonymous

We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. — Paulo Coelho

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. — Nancy Gibbs

I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones. — Chick Willis

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant. — C. Wagner

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. — David Mamet

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that. — Jon Oringer

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union. — Robert Dallek

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets - what nonsense was he thinking? She was fifty at least: she had eight children. Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen: with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair - He took her bag. — Virginia Woolf

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? — Albert Camus

A thought comes when it will, not when I will. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. — Derrick Jensen