Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), from The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford, 1974)
Source: The Hunger Games
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), from The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford, 1974)
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
Interview with Oprah Winfrey
“The fact is he outplayed me. He just proved to be stronger.”
Viswanathan Anand (1969) Indian chess player
2013 World Chess Championship
“Everything happens for me, not to me.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
Evelyn Waugh book The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Source: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
Robert Musil book The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities (1930–1942)
Variant: If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. To pass freely through open doors, it is necessary to respect the fact that they have solid frames. This principle, by which the old professor had lived, is simply a requisite of the sense of reality. But if there is a sense of reality, and no one will doubt that it has its justifications for existing, then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility. Whoever has it does not say, for instance: Here this or that has happened, will happen, must happen; but he invents: Here this or that might, could, or ought to happen. If he is told that something is the way it is, he will think: Well, it could probably just as well be otherwise. So the sense of possibility could be defined outright as the ability to conceive of everything there might be just as well, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not.
Danny Trejo (1944) Mexican American actor
"Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car" https://kfor.com/2019/08/07/actor-danny-trejo-saves-a-trapped-baby-from-an-overturned-car/ (August 7, 2019)
“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels