Sustinet Quotes & Sayings

I vow to live fully in each moment. — Nhat Hanh

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass

The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.] — Ovid

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society. — Hanya Yanagihara

People build something that works. Then circumstances change, and they have to tinker with it to make it continue to work, and they are so busy tinkering that they cannot see that a much better idea would be to build a whole new system to deal with the new circumstances. But to an outsider, the idea is obvious. — Terry Pratchett

Death is better than slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional. — Dries Van Noten

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own — Charles Dickens

The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past. — Arthur Koestler