Aumenta Quotes & Sayings

And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously performed - a proteus - hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates, masked the Council's operations - that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The — H.G.Wells

Yet you are he who l took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. — Anonymous

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do. — Malorie Blackman

Many of us have been unconsciously programmed to treat walking as a means to an end, especially while in the workplace. Naturally, a lack of mindfulness while walking leaves one hostage to self-perpetuating stress and anxiety.
We rush (often while shouting into a mobile phone), completely missing the enjoyment of walking. Walking and breathing, if practised harmoniously, can be peaceful and thoroughly enjoyable. Even walking down a corridor or into an office or wherever we are working or being of service can be a harmonious action. — Christopher Dines

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self. — Richard Gere

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man. — Catherine Ashton

It's my job, but I think it is too much. — Jean Alesi

In other words, to whatever extent migrants are crossing the border and thereby (ostensibly) taking other people's jobs, it is only because the economy of Mexico has been considerably undermined by the policies of our country. — Tim Wise

What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies? — Veronica Roth

That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone. — C. G. Jung

Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity. Your identity, as it is no longer rooted in Being, becomes a vulnerable and ever-needy mental construct, which creates fear as the predominant underlying emotion. The one thing that truly matters is then missing from your life: awareness of your deeper self - your invisible and indestructible reality. — Eckhart Tolle

You don't like me, do you?' he asked. 'And yet, you liked it when I held your hand.'
I stood there, burning with humiliation.
He smiled. A spark of interest illuminated his eyes.
'I find that so intriguing.'
'I didn't like it,' I said, when I finally found my voice. 'I hated it.'
Marko smiled.
'Shall we try it again, then, just to be sure? — Vanessa Garden

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. — Lukas Foss

Now, I think we can all agree that fear is a motivator. The problem is that fear can motivate us to do the wrong things, too. Fear can make the "saving of our skins" the priority, as it does in this case involving religious pluralism. — Curtis A. Chamberlain

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with. — Maya Angelou