Olaf Stapledon quote: "So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago."

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. N...
OLAF STAPLEDON

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed,...
OLAF STAPLEDON

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...
OLAF STAPLEDON

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of peopl...
OLAF STAPLEDON

Homo sapiens is a spider trying to crawl out of a basin. The higher he crawls, the steeper the hill....
OLAF STAPLEDON

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...
OLAF STAPLEDON

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like ...
OLAF STAPLEDON

Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or ano...
OLAF STAPLEDON

I shall describe one example of this kind of world, the greatest planet of a mighty sun. Situated, i...
OLAF STAPLEDON

How should the little creatures, the awakened worlds, reach out to knowledge of the whole cosmos, an...
OLAF STAPLEDON

We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Par...
ROBERT ATKYNS

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the ...
SYDNEY SMITH

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their in...
BUTCH WALLER

Even though Milan's pool is only three years old, Monroe broke some very impressive pool records set...
JEREMY LAYMAN

Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...

Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.
MARTY RUBIN

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors ha...
WALTER LIPPMANN

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn...
STEPHEN HAWKING

A month ago we would've laid down in that spot. We've matured so much. When I looked into their eyes...
CRAIG SWARTOUT

Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER

Rock music -- however that might be defined -- seems like it might actually be losing ground to rap ...
ARVED ASHBY

I'm bitterly disappointed, that from 27-9 down with 20 minutes left, we dragged ourselves into a pos...
GARY PARKER

I talked with some people who watched the game at their church, where all the commercials were block...
BILLY WATSON

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
CASSANDRA KING

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
EDMUND BURKE

As I drove past a barricade, I was scared Marija might be hit by a bullet or a rock, so I told her t...
ALDIN ARNAUTOVIC

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE

But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing ...
HIRAM S. MAXIM

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whate...
JUICY J

Also, students have moved away from home, where they have acquired some immunity to the bugs around ...
JIM COLE

Japan and China is where we should focus in Asia rather than fragment by going into some of the smal...
CHRIS GENT

It's really helped, I think, to raise the level of officiating. We now look at ourselves differently...
DOUG ELGIN

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I disco...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

We put some pew cushions on just about three years or so ago, ... We're turning into something of wi...
DAVID HESS

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing...
DALE CARNEGIE

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting t...
DAVID HACKWORTH

It's easy to talk and say, 'We will look after it.' It's another thing to put some energy into it an...
JOHN GORDON

We are all imperfect creatures,no man can look into the mirror called perfection & not find spots & ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

What we're not willing to do is to get ourselves into some complex negotiation with the White House ...
DICK ARMEY

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I d...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

Don't spend too much time looking in the past otherwise you are bound to repeat the same mistakes. L...
STARGAZER

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
JOHANN VON GOETHE

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

When I look about me, I see everywhere hope, calm resolution, courage, enthusiasm to face all diffic...
SIR WILFRID LAURIER

I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '...
JOHN CALE

My interest and my concern is not so much to ... commemorate what happened 50 years ago but to look ...
FRED GRAY

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po...
LYNN JOHNSTON

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelli...
RICHARD BACH

We have to judge ourselves by how hard we play and not by how many points we might win by.
ADAM KITOWSKI

In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN

Only the bravest can sit quietly, close their eyes and look inward where they just might meet their ...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It ...
THOM YORKE

Some time ago, we had shown schematically where we could put a wall,
BRIAN BARNES

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us out...
JULIO CORTáZAR

We got to spend a lot of time with the local people down there. We learned a lot about their culture...
ERIC MAJUSIAK

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
SHAYNE WARD

We restricted ourselves by geography, so we chose not to restrict ourselves by industry sector.
JEREMY WOLFE

Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are ...
ANNE RICE

Derek told us how great it was there and it sounded like a better deal than the places we were at. W...
BRIAN IDALSKI

We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secr...
SIMON R. GREEN

We know where all the visitors are, so we can track them down and alert them if they've left their l...
JEFF LEITNER

What might be musical today might differ from what was musical some years ago.
CLYDE MCKENZIE

We're bringing AC/DC-like riffs, not a lot of whining like some rockers do. We don't like to bring r...
ABBY GENNET

Microsoft and Netscape gobbled up market share from all the small independent e-mail firms with nice...
DAVID PASSMORE

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the...
JASPER FFORDE

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to de...
CAROL BELLAMY

Some diseases that afflict humans today, such as malaria, gout and cancer, are truly ancient and wer...
CHRISTOPHER BEARD

We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we l...
KIRK FERENTZ

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis...
GEORGE CRUMB

We have to look at ourselves, ... The solution rests with us. We cant look to others to take care of...
ROBERT ATWELL

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are mo...
JACK MA

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which ...
VIRGIL

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.
IAN PERCY

We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions.
UNKNOWN

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda p...
NATALIE COUGHLIN

We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE

So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUS

So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS

If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we ...
STEVEN E. LANDSBURG

But their alignment with Port Melbourne broke down, so you've got to look at that and be wary.
TIM BAKER

Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and auth...
GRAYSON PERRY

When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks ...
STEVE BREEN

In the previous two games (against RFH), we started to get down on ourselves and broke down individu...
KRISTINA COPPOLINO

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ...
WILFRID LAURIER

Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats hav...
LUKE EVANS

Of course I'm trying to trick you!" Olaf cried. "That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everybody...
LEMONY SNICKET

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have lear...
DO WON CHANG

We were trying some guys out. Hopefully, they learned from some of their mistakes.
ERIC WEDEMEYER

We will set up a new catalysts division where we would pool Engelhard's activities with our own exis...
JUERGEN HAMBRECHT

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
BARBARA CASTLE

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
FRANK HERBERT

Personally, I kind of stumbled into it, many moons ago. I wanted to play in a rock band, but I could...
ALAN REID

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, the...
BORIS JOHNSON

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, t...
SAMUEL BECKETT

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

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