We are where centuries
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. Eugene O’Neill
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We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. Eugene O’Neill
I hadn’t been there [Comic-Con] before. It’s pretty eye-opening, when you haven’t been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It’s like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their … Read more
It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me. Diane Drake
The rest – all the hoopla, the acclaim – doesn’t really matter a lot to Joel and Ethan [Coen]. They just want to get the chance to continue to work. And that blew my mind. To be at that level and to have that humility, it was eye-opening and inspiring. David Krumholtz
We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really discovered who Danny McBride was, as an actor. When I say we, I mean me and a crew and a small audience that would hit the art house. He’d never acted before, and … Read more
There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory. Confucius
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world … Read more
If you’re going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of … Read more
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking … Read more
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge