Edward young -night thoughts (4)

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Edward James Olmos

There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.

Edward Furlong

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

Edward Tufte

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

Neil Young

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Edward James Olmos

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Edward Abbey

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Loretta Young

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Edward Sapir

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Edward Sapir

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Edward de Bono

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

Edward James Olmos

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

Edward Bond

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Loretta Young

Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

Edward Furlong

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Edward Hopper