Quotes
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Elizabeth Samet
"courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity." --
Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Elizabeth Samet
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“Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.”
Source : Galerie Smith-Anderson, Sam Francis (1975*). “Sam Francis: black and white lithographs, 1963-1975”
“God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.”
“I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”
“I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.”
“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
“You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.”
“Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.”
“I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.”
