"To hope is to give yourself to the……" — Rebecca Solnit
"To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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More Commitment Quotes
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
— Tom Arnold
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of…
— Christian Bale
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
— Bob Beauprez
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we…
— Candice Bergen
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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