Agonic Quotes & Sayings

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer. — Dee Dee Bridgewater

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven. — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

True wit never made us laugh. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

breakfast at eight and dinner is at — Nicholas Sparks

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. — Kevin Richardson

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential. — Joanna Macy

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts. — William Shatner

Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening. — Eckhart Tolle

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor. — Robert Scheer

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle. — Cassandra Clare

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. — Edgar Allan Poe

Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren? — John Guillebaud

You'll see," she says cryptically, because she sometimes likes acting like an oracle and asshole all wrapped in one. — Jo Raven

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture. — Eric S. Raymond