Alkanet Root Quotes & Sayings

A life is not a life if not for love. — P.G. Harding

And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you."
"Isn't tasting me?"
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"I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism. And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to. — Aldous Huxley

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap. — Lindsey Graham

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed. — Lord Acton

Cricket is baseball on Valium. — Robin Williams

That in the face of smarter women it was best to beat a continuous retreat, to slash and burn one's own personal convictions before their sure-footed advance. — Gary Shteyngart

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom. — Tucker Carlson

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago. — Kazuo Ishiguro

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes. — Andrew Mitchell

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days. — Rose Schneiderman

Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag. — Dave Barry

Things that matter come in sets of twos. Two eyes, two ears. Two kisses on the cheeks, one on each. Two lungs. Two arms. Two legs. I would not be completely blind if I lost one eye... But because we have one heart, there is no second one that can serve as a reserve when the first is stricken by sorrow. — Lan Cao