21950 A Quotes & Sayings

In order to bring about a convulsive political change, it was essential to intensify the existing social tensions to the point where all would be driven to choose sides in what would thus be established as a simplistic equation of class conflict. Marxists and their ideological inheritors described this as sharpening the contradictions of society. — Richard K. Morgan

The snow on their faces is so white that how the white patches on their faces, which once looked so white against their black, are a shade of yellow. — Lydia Davis

And when you reach the place where this understanding overtakes you; that there is no one in the world that will ever love you with the force and power you can love yourself with. That no saviour in the form of a spouse or best friend is coming to make you complete and that you are your own saviour, your own best friend and perhaps the only saviour and best friend you will have, you will soar on wings of eagles and amazing things will happen. — Adunni Badmus

A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make. — Paul Washer

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing,
but in finding what is present. — Tara Brach

The smell of freedom. But perhaps it was true what his mother, the teacher, had said. That the human brain can reproduce detailed images of everything you have seen or heard, but not even the most basic smell. Smell. The images — Anonymous

Good-bye, Eros, and all the soldiers on it, the ones who fought for me and the other children, the ones who manipulated us and lied to us for the good of humanity, the ones who conspired to defame me and keep me from returning to Earth, all of you, good and bad, kind and selfish, good-bye to you, I am no longer one of you, neither your pawn nor your savior. — Orson Scott Card

Do you think you're special, Perry?" he asked seriously.
I winced. "A little bit. Maybe more in the Special Olympics kind of way. — Karina Halle

Jackson," I asked carefully. "Are you on any illegal substances I should know about?"
"Nope."
"Eaten any strange looking mushrooms?"
"Not lately."
"Any near brushed with eternal damnation that might be affecting your judgement?"
He grinned. "That hard to believe, huh? — Cecily White

Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition. — Rajneesh

Was there ever something not known before it was recognized? — Sorin Cerin