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Essayist Inspirational Quotes (57170)

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The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
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the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.
Leo Tolstoy
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Death is given in a kiss the dearest kindnesses are fatal and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
Rabindranath Tagore
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George Eliot
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What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen Keller
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
H. L. Mencken
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I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.
Nora Ephron
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What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
Tristan Tzara
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Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.
Ayn Rand
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Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.
Tristan Tzara
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Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.
Tristan Tzara
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I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.
Tristan Tzara
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Every love story is a ghost story.
David Foster Wallace
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I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way. - Tristan Tzara Dada Manifesto 1918
Tristan Tzara
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In principle, I am against principles.
Tristan Tzara
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Art needs an operation
Tristan Tzara
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We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
Tristan Tzara
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When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.
Tristan Tzara
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Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)
Tristan Tzara
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.
Nancy Gibbs
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau
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