Arights Quotes & Sayings

I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! I don't give a damn for anyone's aggregation of facts, except that it be a reflection [of] basic sensitivity which I do demand ... I intend to do everything ... to have one way of evaluating experience - does it cause me pleasure or pain and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful - I shall anticipate pleasure everything and find it, too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ... everything matters! The only thing I resign is the power to resign, to retreat: the acceptance of sameness and the intellect. I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there? — Susan Sontag

The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla. — Edward Dahlberg

Wisdom is unlearning what you have learnt. — Amit Abraham

Sometimes when I really like something, or try to do or experience something, I get all anxious about the end before it even begins. I was doing it again. This is really hard to put into words, but it was as if I was already experiencing the end of the weekend before it had even begun, and it created a lot of anxiety in me. It worried me that I would not get everything out of it that I wanted, or that it would not be all that I had hoped it would be. I was too emotional. — J.W. Lord

We never know how big a role we play in someone else's drama. — Danielle Ganek

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. — Ezra Taft Benson

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part. — Abbe Smith

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass — Ava Gardner

You're perfect for me,' I whispered in my own language. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. — Shawn Ashmore

He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now ... The woods in late autumn had become his private sun dappled cathedral, one that contained presences antithetical to the conventional notion of a church. — James Lee Burke