186th Street Quotes & Sayings

Sacrificial religion was all exposed in Jesus' response to any mechanical or mercenary notion of religion, but we soon went right back to it in many Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant forms, because the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control. — Richard Rohr

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. — Seneca The Younger

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being. — Tony Kushner

On every side of me are the lights and the tools and the wood and the boots and the boy I want to see forever. And if my Sea of Tranquility were real, it would be this place, with him. — Katja Millay

On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME. — Hunter S. Thompson

Asuras are not bad people; they just have an understanding of dharma that is not valid for today's world. Sometimes, the followers are good but the leaders let them down. — Amish Tripathi

The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V) — Reshma Valliappan

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls ... because they can. — Kim Cattrall

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life. — Robert Palmer

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. — Francis Cornford

Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more ... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more. — T. Harv Eker

The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission. — Mike Breen

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it. — Reese Witherspoon

Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people ... He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitrage's flatness and lack of feeling. He'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence. — William Gibson