Daily Quotes (From September 22nd to September 28th)
(Updated daily between 7pm and Midnight)
Disclaimer:
I haven’t read everything from which these quotes are drawn. I often find a theme or topic that resonates with me and search for quotes that capture that feeling. It’s something I’ve enjoyed doing for years, and I’m excited to share it here again.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell
To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
James Stephens
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
Theodore Zeldin
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Douglas Horton
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow
Materialism is an identity crisis.
Bryant H. McGill
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
Wole Soyinka
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
Rachel Morrison
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman
Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
Phoebe Snow
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
Andy Dunn