"Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ..."

--

Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

Eleanor Clark

#Rome Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Century Quotes

“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”
“Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.”
“To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both”
“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.”
“"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.”

Source : "Collected Papers: Vol. 1". Book by Robert Aumann, 2000.
“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And itâ€™s a terrible thing. Iâ€™m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”
“Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.”

You may also like:

Allen Tate
Poet
Elise M. Boulding
Author
Eudora Welty
Author
Huey Long
Former Governor of Louisiana
Mary McCarthy
Author
Mignon G. Eberhart
Author
Robert Penn Warren
Poet
Walker Percy
Author
William Faulkner
Writer