Buchmann Harley Quotes & Sayings

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity
which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves
we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims. — James Baldwin

God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours. — Chris Fabry

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. — Jose Mujica

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. — Frank Herbert

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. — Afrika Bambaataa

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can't remember. They — Margaret Atwood

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you. — Frank Zappa

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond. — Mitchell Baker

His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound f water when it pulls off sand. — Jenny Han

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. — Jean Piaget

We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women. — Alexander McCall Smith

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating. — Steve Earle

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character. — Mike Tyson