Quotes for All
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. The real fear should be … Read more
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them. Eugene Ionesco
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now. Esa-Pekka Salonen
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It’s a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer. Elie Wiesel
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. Edmund Burke
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience–the recognitions or revelations–out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are inspired, they breathe in revelation and breathe … Read more
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there’s a part of us that wants – that needs – to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for transfusion, and have all the other travel adventures that make us want … Read more
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Claudius