Famous quotes containing the words positive and/or sense:
“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evilfar more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.”
—Jill Tweedie (b. 1936)
“I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when youre older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you wont find it, but its possible in some sense to make it. I dont mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)