#saying

How does one say something new and not retell? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #new #philosophy

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beware #dead #death #let us #life

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#asking #been #books #both #care

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#against #believe #dollar #every #federal

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#angry #been #down #ever #exist

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #arm #back #because #behind

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #man #never #own #saying

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#babbling #beads #believe #consists #many

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#concepts #defined #did #his #i

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#i #i can #knees #loudly #myself