Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Macaulay

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Pete Seeger

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Kami Garcia

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Michael Scheuer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Remy de Gourmont

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Rumi

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Tupac Shakur

There ain't no place like paradise.

Marcel Proust

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Jacque Fresco

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Matthew Fox

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Carl Jung

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Rob Zombie

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

Richard Baxter

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Russell Brand

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Samuel Smiles

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.