Believe Quote by Maggie Nelson Download Open image “I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.” — Maggie Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Crime Kind Medicine Violence
Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“But “knowing the truth” does not come with redemption as a guarantee, nor does a feeling of redemption guarantee an end to a cycle… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native or foreign to me. At times I grow tired of this approach, and all… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
