Paul Bowles Quotes

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

Paul Bowles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999

Topics

SkyPeopleNightHorrorAboveLies

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.

John Berger

RisksPeopleNationIndividualSense

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

John Bolton

ThinkPoliticalYouKnowNeedTell

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.

John M. Grunsfeld

MotherAgeScienceMeChanceLearn

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

Matthew Hayden

LiveExpectationsThinkEverything

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

Ann Voskamp

HeartDeepBoringRealHoleBore

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

Stanley Hauerwas

GreatTimeDisciplineWorldCharity

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Robert Baden-Powell

DailyTimeEnvironmentCountryRight

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Jonas Gahr Store

WeakModernLiberalDemocraticBeing

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Diane Kruger

AngerMeFrustrationActingOutGet

Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

WorldAmericanHandsCreateOver

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

Chris Milk

LoveTechnologyTryingNewTell

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Brad Pitt

FearPeaceDeathMeEnoughFeeling

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