Uncharted Among Thieves Quotes & Sayings

Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. — Walter Russell

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

My behavior makes perfect sense to me. — Heidi Julavits

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. — Francis Quarles

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' — Jennifer Weiner

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed. — Cyrus Broacha

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe. — E.J. Koh

Are you open for this possibility of the energy source of breathing to go through you or are you collapsing? Are you open to this coming and going of air and the possibility-wea ther we sit, or stand, or lie-to allow this exchange of air through us? — Charlotte Selver

Fear is an emotional response. It manifests physically. Think tension, muscle aches, rapid heartbeat, sweating. Worry suppresses that arousal. — Noelle Hancock

I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings? — L.M. Montgomery

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life. — Asger Jorn

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either. — Jackie Kennedy

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. — Edgar Allan Poe

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head. — Al Gore