Taemon Blair Quotes & Sayings

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

The voyages of the great Chinese fleet were missions of exploration and commerce. They were not enterprises of conquest. No yearning for domination obliged Zheng to scorn or condemn what he found. What was not admirable was at least worthy of curiosity. And from trip to trip, the imperial library in Beijing continued growing until it held four thousand books that collected the wisdom of the world.
At the time, the king of Portugal had six books. — Eduardo Galeano

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. — Haruki Murakami

I decided very early that I was going to be
a reporter, that I would not cheer for the
team. I don't denigrate people who do it.
It's fine. — Ernie Harwell

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle

The study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829) — Robert Schumann

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands. — Lois Greiman

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level. — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Imagination is the one weapon against reality. — Jules De Gaultier

Escape procedures, however, were in full force. Some people, in a frenzy of antipathy and boredom, were drinking themselves into extreme approximations of longing to be together. Exchanging phone numbers, demanding to have lunch, proposing to share an apartment - the escalations of fellowship had the air of a terminal auction, a fierce adult version of slapjack, a bill-payer loan from a finance company, an attempt to buy with one grand convivial debt, to be paid in future, an exit from each other's company at that instant. — Renata Adler

Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses the public with his afflictions. — Gustave Flaubert

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling. — Victor Hugo

Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'm pretty sure I've fictionalized how great living alone is. — Colleen Hoover

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. — Jill Soloway