Steidley D Quotes & Sayings

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. — John Ashbery

Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them. — John De Ruiter

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes? — Jacqueline Carey

It was then that Hook bit him.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. — J.M. Barrie

You are here to deliver a divine gift to the world. — Debbie Ford

I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume: — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. — Dario Argento

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change] — Al Gore

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch. — Michael Armstrong