Cassanos Near Quotes & Sayings

Non-possession does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments. — Boep Joeng

Men often become what they are told they are. If you repeatedly tell a man he is a slave, he will eventually forget how to think as a free man, although I am optimist enough to hope that there is something in a man that will always remain free. — Susan Heyboer O'Keefe

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. — Virginia Woolf

Above all, such an understanding of loneliness should help liberate us. It should teach us that loneliness is both a good and a natural force in our lives. — Ronald Rolheiser

They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good. — Simone De Beauvoir

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live. — Bill Hybels

Because while she's so pre-occupied reading ... I'm so pre-occupied reading her. — Jay McLean

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing. — Benny Blanco

And we weren't a species interested in facts, as such. We were more into evading or spinning them. — Adrian Barnes

Gabby seemed to have made up her mind. 'I certainly wish I could help you, Lord Breksby,' she cooed, tilting her head to the side.
Quill watched cynically from the other side of the room as Breksby melted in front of his eyes. At least he wasn't alone in being bowled over by Miss Gabrielle Jerningham. Although he rather thought he, Quill, hadn't been lied to yet. If so, he reminded himself, it was only a matter of time. — Eloisa James

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods. — Horace

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent. — Henry Rollins

[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior — Kim Stanley Robinson

Should a community ... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress? — Noam Chomsky

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents. — Frank Zappa