Quotes for All
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better…to have a purpose beyond one’s self lends to existence a meaning and direction – the most important characteristic of high well-being. Gail Sheehy
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German – overdone. Evelyn Waugh
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen’s story of the king with no clothes told one bitter … Read more
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. Evan Davis
If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come. Eugene Gendlin
Why are atoms so small? … Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir … Read more
If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive. Erwin McManus
Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film. Errol Morris
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute Erich Heller
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. Eric Alterman