Carakuulei Quotes & Sayings

No business
which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its
workers has any right to continue in this country ... By living wages, I
mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent
living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Death is inevitable. Life is too. Even if Scion succeeds, there will be some who remain, because they hid well enough, because they aren't interesting or different enough to kill. Life, death, a binary. — Wildbow

Oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism; the most inflammatory taunt that could be snarled at an enemy was The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth. — Jared Diamond

You'll have more power when you aren't angry. Anger sucks your energy. It makes you weak and distorts your focus. — A. Valentine Joseph

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese

Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it! — Wally Lamb

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. — Emile M. Cioran

Purposefully owning less begins to take us out of the unwinnable game of comparison. — Joshua Becker

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them. — Seth Godin

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith ... — Anton Szandor LaVey

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. — Yannis Philippakis

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far. — J. Cole

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. — Ray McKinnon

Ganesh was rooting for Wilkin, and it scared the hell out of him. Because when a Hindu god feels the need to offer you strength and compassion, you know the shit's about to get real. — Zander Marks

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off. — Julia Sawalha