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Ben Okri quote: "I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and..."

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else... Frederick Buechner
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry. Paul Kane
Frank Herbert quote: "You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've..."
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. Frank Herbert
I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top. Jonathan Davis
George Carlin quote: "I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking."
I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking. George Carlin
Colin Powell quote: "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Colin Powell
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. Albert Einstein
Patrick Rafter quote: "Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do."
Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do. Patrick Rafter
Ezra Pound quote: "Go in fear of abstractions."
Go in fear of abstractions. Ezra Pound
Daniel Day-Lewis quote: "The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a..."
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. Daniel Day-Lewis
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope)..."
All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss. Chuck Palahniuk
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. Hesiod
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it..."
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it). Umberto Eco
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. Bertrand Russell