Accomplishing My First Semester Quotes & Sayings

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all. — Herbert Marcuse

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people — Ben Thompson

I would love to work with Julia Roberts at some point. — Brad Goreski

Today I, tomorrow you. But this need of help does not mean that the one is helpless, the other powerful. Helplesness is a transitory condition; the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one — Erich Fromm

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. — Alex Chilton

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well. — Jenny Slate

What we call results are beginnings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people, its structures, or its history. As such, they had no inclination to defend its invisible borders from declared enemies within or without. They desired only escape from this small village, which each viewed as an existential prison built upon the antiquated expectations of their parents and their parents' parents. And because of their invisible bondage, the young of this town were possessed by a quiet rage. But this rage laid torpid and inert within them, dulled to sleep by the tired repetition of nothing happening over and over and over again, day after day after day.
This is the story of one of those young people, and the terrible things that happened to her, and the terrible things she did as a result. — P.S. Baber

My life is only half full
When I receive.
My heart is completely full
Only when I give. — Sri Chinmoy

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead. — Jess C. Scott