Adventure Quote by Jamake Highwater

“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision…

— Jamake Highwater

“People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same…

— George Orwell

“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and…

— Norman Manea

Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“When we disown parts of ourself, we tend to judge others who display those same qualities. We lay claim to moral superiority. This holding…

— Frank Ostaseski

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep…

— William Hurt

“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“but quite to the contrary a result of an intensely if not painfully aversively perceived environment.” Behavior that looks antisocial to an outsider might…

— Temple Grandin

Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism…

— Kenny Smith

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given…

— Ralph Cudworth

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no…

— Virginia Woolf