"Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Language Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.”
“Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.”
“It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
“We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1976). “Hurry up, America, & spit”, Harcourt
“To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
“I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.”
“I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.”
“As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

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