Barkowski Los Angeles Quotes & Sayings

It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood. — Robert Creeley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas H. Huxley — Thomas Henry Huxley

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness. — Ferdinand Marcos

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories. — Hannah Arendt

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed. — Neale Donald Walsch

Cultural debates are always conflicts between orthodoxies. — Anonymous

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. — Earl Nightingale

China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me. — Neil Gaiman

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote. — Scott Oden

Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x dollars multiplied by the total number of lives that need saving. Stopping poverty one victim at a time is like mowing a lawn one blade at a time. The problem grows faster than the cure can be applied, the only people who profit are the agencies who claim to be cutting grass while they're actually applying fertilizer. — Sheri S. Tepper

How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? — Elie Wiesel

I always say too much when I'm talking to you
that's one of the problems ... — Stephenie Meyer