Quotes - Robert Case (daedalusr) (Denver, CO) Showing 1-30 of 62

#1

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
― Charlie Tremendous Jones

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#2

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2915 likes

#3

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5400 likes

#4

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26800 likes

#5

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2049 likes

#6

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

2841 likes

#7

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2198 likes

#8

“Even people who know nothing about Greece know something about Greece. The very name sparks visions of ancient civilizations that dominated the Mediterranean.”
― Polly Letofsky

tags: greece

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#9

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

2016 likes

#10

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3837 likes

#11

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry

2815 likes

#12

“These are old words, old stories and we are not here to blindly repeat them. They are not law. They are power, nourishment. There is a river of voices coming out of the past, resonating in the telling of the old stories...We are grounded in its power. It is our connection to each other and to the larger universe.”
― Robert William Case

tags: storytelling, writing

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#13

“What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.”
― Robert William Case, Daedalus Rising - The True Story of Icarus

tags: inspirational-quote

4 likes

#14

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
― John Henry Newman

tags: growth-life

58 likes

#15

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

815 likes

#16

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11253 likes

#17

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

2405 likes

#18

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

2566 likes

#19

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

2058 likes

#20

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

4364 likes

#21

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

992 likes

#22

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
― Will Self

tags: criticism, inspirational

633 likes

#23

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

tags: creativity, life

496 likes

#24

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

tags: expression, heart, inspirational, music, power-of-music

820 likes

#25

“Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”
― Gail Sheehy

tags: creativity

466 likes

#26

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

tags: a-new-world, forgetting, forgiveness, genius, gulley-jimson, heart-beats, truth

519 likes

#27

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

7747 likes

#28

“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton

tags: complaining, love

512 likes

#29

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

1239 likes

#30

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm

594 likes

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