“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 94 of 313
“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”
“Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.”
“THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.”
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
“Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.”
“And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.”
“You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.”
“I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success”
“What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.”
“When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.”
“[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.”
“Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.”
“One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.”
“Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.”
“I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.”
“When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to us. Even something as simple as their walking into a room or whispering something to someone else can be conjured up in our minds, to look to us as if they're doing it on purpose to irritate us -as if they're involved in some diabolical plot to hurt us further. What they may be doing may have no connection to their past actions that hurt us in the first place but our resentful feelings against them can often taint our perception of what's really taking place.”
“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
“How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?”
“For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.”