quotes about Depending On Others

“Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.”

“Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.”

“I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.”

“When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.”

“Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.”

Source : Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.165, Broadway Books

“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”

“Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!”

“I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.”

“Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.”

“Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.”