Tarkowski Diamonds Quotes & Sayings

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. — Pearl S. Buck

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets. — Kelly Slater

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. — Ayn Rand

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth. — Jane Goodall

The last three and a half months have been anything but easy. It still amazes me how far I've come in the last three and a half months. It amazes me even more that I survived the last three and a half months. — Sarah Ann Walker

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do — Diane Ackerman

One of the problems with fame ... is they try to pigeonhole you ... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life. — Charles A. Reich

But there is a reason why religions insist so much on strange events in the sky, as well as on less quantifiable phenomena such as dreams and visions. All of these things cater to our inborn stupidity, and our willingness to be persuaded against all the evidence that we are indeed the center of the universe and that everything is arranged with us in mind. — Christopher Hitchens