Yehdego Gebremedhin Quotes & Sayings

We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to arrest your knowledge of it, because the thing itself is no longer free. For me the pain of knowledge is a tonic, an antidote to the pall of possession. But there is an element of death in knowledge (...) Knowledge is what remains to the human mind once the possession has been lost. It is the reliquary of the vanished object. Its presence is painful, because it signifies that what was known is no longer there. — Rachel Cusk

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else. — Harold Ramis

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life. — Rod Stryker

time - that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works. — Ellen G. White

My world's an eternity of total eclipse And I call it my personal apocalypse — Devon Eaton

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. — Paulo Coelho

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline. — Busy Philipps

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean. — Haruki Murakami

Armani froze to the spot, unable to move. Her breath tightened in her lungs, shivers of awareness ran down her spine, the sudden energy zipping through her body announcing the shimmer of recognition. — Suzan Battah