The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Quote by Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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Susan Sontag Quotes
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
- Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
- Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
- Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
- Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
- Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
- The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
- I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
- Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.