Quotes for All
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don’t hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties. Gail Sheehy
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward G. Campbell Morgan
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you. Ernst Haas
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Ernest Dimnet
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, … Read more
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? Emile M. Cioran
I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. Elliott Gould
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. Ellen Glasgow
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. Ellen Gallagher
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. Elizabeth … Read more