Teaster Landscape Quotes & Sayings

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable — Garrett Hardin

Guilt has got a power; it never leaves us until it sorts out with the actual pain — D.N. Joshi

The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down? — Julian Barnes

Never was strumpet faire. — George Herbert

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions. — Kenny Werner

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. — John Wyndham

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book. — Margaret Atwood

Folded in your arms, I shall sink to sleep; Your hand shall close my eyes for ever, and your lips receive my dying breath. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful. — Iris Apfel

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. — Gloria Swanson

The pleasure of the sentence is to a high degree cultural. The artifact created by rhetors, grammarians, linguists, teachers, writers, parents
this artifact is mimicked in a more or less ludic manner; we are playing with an exceptional object, whose paradox has been articulated by linguistics: immutably structured and yet infinitely renewable: something like chess. — Roland Barthes

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, don't touch me! as he moved to place a gentle hand on my shoulder. There were times when we seemed locked into our chairs, discrete, the static between us more eloquent than words. But there was never a moment when I doubted Peter's ability to heal me. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke