Rift famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
-- Gerald Kersh

#War #Shining #Rift
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
-- John Keats

#Artist #Rift #Might
In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.
-- Princess Margaret

#Rift #My Sister #Our Family
But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.
-- Vanessa Veselka

#Mean #Rift #Care
The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.
-- Dov Davidoff

#Culture #Rift #Pops
There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.
-- Frank O'Hara

#Clouds #Rift #Frowning
Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.
-- Steve Inskeep

#People #Rift #Ancient

There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
Thereâ€™s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just donâ€™t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you canâ€™t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it youâ€™ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yea, a heart made fullmetal.
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
No, it's not healed. It happened in Sochi and it's been going on and off all season. It's been bugging me throughout my entire Grand Prix season. Coming here, my foot was bothering me. I knew when to push my foot and when not to. I know that it was all in my head. I knew if I didn't think about it too much, it wouldn't bother me too much. But it's been getting better. Still not fully healed but it's getting much better than it has been.
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, thatâ€™s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of whatâ€™s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.
I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.