Quotes About Experience

A face, he believes, is a piece of sculpture that has taken a lifetime to mold, so it tells more than any actor's technique possibly could. I've watched Fellini work, and he did

A face, he believes, is a piece of sculpture that has taken a lifetime to mold, so it tells more than any actor's technique possibly could.

E, então, o tempo, o tempo verdadeiramente físico, não se orienta pelo relógio; ele é antes, e no mais das vezes, uma função da atmosfera na qual transcorre. É, portanto, extraordinariamente difícil determinar, mesmo aproximadamente, quando um se juntou de fato à companhia dos outros, quando o outro se levantou e quando o terceiro realmente partiu.

Andavo già a scuola da qualche mese, quando accadde una cosa solenne ed eccitante che determinò tutta la mia successiva esistenza. Mio padre mi portò un libro.

No child, not even the most ordinary, forgets or forgives a single one of the commands inflicted on it.

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as an adolescent, at an age when one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature?

Deep down, the witness knew then, as he does now, that his testimony would not be received. After all, it deals with an event that sprang from the darkest zone of man. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was. Others will never know. But would they at least understand?

books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from?

I'm serious, she said. I read your articles. They are written by a man who has come to the end of his life, to the end of his hopes. That is a sign of youth, I answered. The young today don't believe that someday they'll be old: they are convinced they'll die young. Old men are the real youngsters of our generation. They at least can brag about having had what we do not have: a slice of life called youth.

Ta práce byla ?istá prostituce... prostituce m?že být zcela v poÃ…â"¢ádku pro profesionál(k)y - ale je riziková pro amatéry.

Twenty-five years later, an African American guitarist named Son House sang, "The blues ain't nothing but a low-down, aching chill.

And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

Nobody knows where it comes from, and nobody knows where it goes.' Love doesn't make sense most of the time and that's what's so wonderful about it.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He goeth before.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

There is no qualitative or quantitative measurement for pain. It is simply there--sharp or dull, shooting or stabbing, bearable or excruciating, local or general, it is unexplained, uninvited, unavoidable. It takes command. It is all-encompassing, implacable, exigent.

L'amour est notre expérience du divin, de la sainteté sacrée. Il est la richesse qui se trouve autour de nous. C'est à nous de le prendre.