Able Quotes - Page 137

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Smiling in Heaven isn't required - it's inevitable.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.

Winning 9 games is very respectable.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you