top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Author
"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
44
"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."
44
"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
44
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
44
"Whether or not one believes in the accelerating dangers of the climate crisis, the end of fossil fuels, or the permanent annihilation of species of plants, insects and animals that essentially cover our ass by maintaining an inconceivably complex environment in which we have the freedom and responsibility to do pretty much whatever we'd like, it's not too difficult to at least perceive the dangers of heightened tensions between cultures that now, for the first time, have the power to annihilate each other or the entire planet."
44
"It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down."
44
"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth."
44
"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
44
"I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense."
44
"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us."
44
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"
44
"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."
44
"The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego."
44
"Convert every passing time into products."
44
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
44
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
44
"Do not seek recognition or gratification from man - serve the Lord. He knows how to reward everyone."
44
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order-willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living."
44
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
44
"Positive attitude, positive outlook and positive self-esteem!"
44
"In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
44
"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."
44
"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."
44
"My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped."
44
"Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get."
44
"Wrath: What the hell are you supposed to ask?Rhage: I know! Who do you like the most? It's me right?Come on, you know it is. Come oooooonnnnn-Butch: If its you,, I'll kill myself.V: No, that just means she's blind.Rhage: It has to be me.V: She said she didn't like you at first.Rhage: Ah, but I won her over, which is more than anyone else can say about you, hot stuff.J.R.: I don't like anyone the bestWrath: Right answer.Rhage: She's just sparing all of you feelings. (grins, becoming impossibly handsome) She's so polite.J.R.: Next question?Rhage: Why do you like me the best?"
44
"When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin."
44
"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."
44
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
44
"Your healthy self-esteem is one of the most significant and powerful drivers in your life. It drives your perceptions, attitudes, opinions, relationships, communications, and your decisions."
44
"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good."
44
"If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy."
44
"Brotherly love should be our number one principle as believers."
44
bottom of page