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Way Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and…
- EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,
- To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to…
- People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and…
- For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
- Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen