Josh Ritter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.
-- Josh Ritter

#Real #Space #Legs
Fear only has as much power as we give it space.
-- Josh Ritter

#Space #Giving
Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.
-- Josh Ritter

#Heart #Tangled #Knots
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.
-- Josh Ritter

#Water #Tree #Body
Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone
-- Josh Ritter

#Long #Snow #Gone
Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.
-- Josh Ritter

#Kissing #Feelings #Marathon
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.
-- Josh Ritter

#Men #Singing #Mercy
I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.
-- Josh Ritter

#Art #Writing #Thinking
I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.
-- Josh Ritter

#Looks #Rooftops

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
I always knew I was going to die in space.
Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her
Iâ€™m in no hurry: the sun and the moon arenâ€™t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, Iâ€™m not there in an instant.

Josh Ritter famous quotes

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