Amadea Music Quotes & Sayings

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group. — William Julius Wilson

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. — Orison S. Marden

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig

How would he write without her? [The buried awareness of how completely her hands reached into his work; don't look, Lotto. It'd be like looking at the sun.] — Lauren Groff

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. — Karen Armstrong

Joy is light but strong enough to lift your spirits. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. — Todd Akin

Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the Malthusian constraints. They had minimal impacts on living conditions. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, we have entered a strange new world in which economic theory is of little use in understanding differences in income across societies, or the future income in any specific society. Wealth and poverty are a matter of differences in local social interactions that are magnified, not dampened, by the economic system, to produce feast or famine. — Gregory Clark

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light. — Elif Shafak

Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It's when you can't settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that ... it's a compulsion. It's the difference between lust and love. — Kirsten Hubbard

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America. — Ray Nagin

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. — Dick Wolf