ZizzFeed Quotes

"I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford."

Philip Guedalla

"Humility is attentive patience."

Simone Weil

"Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented."

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"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."

Anonymous

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

Anonymous

"Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it."

Mason Cooley

Inspiration

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

Julius Lester

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

Emily Dickinson

Inspiration

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

"Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow."

Hadley Freeman

"You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth."

Unknown

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

Anonymous

Inspiration

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.

Amit Abraham

"Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives."

Giacomo Casanova

"Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being."

Anonymous

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."

Walter Annenberg

Inspiration

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marina Abramovic

"When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband."

Louis Theroux

Inspiration

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

J.Z. Colby

"...You do yourself no favour if you let your sense of doubt-mistrust-scepticism to rise up within you to the point where you must look every gift horse in the mouth..."

Isabella koldras

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