Contraband Quote by John Berger Download Open image “Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.” — John Berger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contraband Contraband Passed Hand Hand Story Hands Hope Hope Contraband Passed Stories Story Story Story
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world. — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope. — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“Something was on him and he couldn't shake it. He couldn't even see it. It was a new weapon of some sort and his… — Brett Arquette Copy Share Image
“Λαθράνθρωπος, οι = ἂνθρωπος/οι, που λαθραῖα συν~κατα~λέγονται στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων ~ Lathranthrope, Lathranthropes = the person or persons that get smuggled into being included within the Human species neology by Ale3ia” — Ale3ia Copy Share Image
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues. — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
“Λαθρανθρωπία = το να συν~κατα~λέγεται λαθραῖα ἒνα ἂτομο/α, στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων. ~ Lathranthropia = the smuggled inclusion of a person or persons within the Human species. neology by Ale3ia” — Ale3ia Copy Share Image
“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words,… — Ivan E. Coyote Copy Share Image
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