Bristly Locust Quotes & Sayings

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet - medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held. — Dion Fortune

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people. — Stanley Crouch

There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood. — Ted Hughes

This book is dedicated to you, who taught me how profoundly one human being can love another. — Danny Wedding

To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41). — Jerry Bridges

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. — Alison Gopnik

Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese. — George Orwell

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one. — Bill Gothard

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson

You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days. — John Le Carre

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler. — Mae West