Ampun Us Quotes & Sayings

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness. — Geraldine Brooks

(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and — MJ DeMarco

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher

That's what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks' thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an artist or holy man's way of getting a foot in the Void Which Binds' front door. Aenea knew that. You should have too. — Dan Simmons

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. — W. H. Auden

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit. — Shinichi Suzuki

Papers there were in the chest, and parchments, and stiff untanned skins, written in English and Latin and the old Cumric tongue: Morgan was born, Morgan was married, Morgan became a knight, Morgan was hanged. Here lay the history of the house, shameful and glorious. — John Steinbeck

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. — Idries Shah

Healing is a choice. It's not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen. — Yehuda Berg

Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them. — Pete Hamill

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it. — Vance Havner

The sentimentality of kitsch is a sign of its falseness. But it is also a sign of its extravagance. Unanchored to reality, sentimentality is naturally unbounded. Kitsch is a response to a failure or disintegration of cultural values. When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come to us from on high.

The grandiosity of kitsch is in proportion to the existential poverty out of which it arose. In this context, it is worth noting a limitation of that dictionary definition of kitsch. The sentimentality of kitsch can be "sweet," but it can also be sour, malignant. — Roger Kimball

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto — Andy Stanton

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake. — Cory Lidle