Chaco Canyon Quotes & Sayings

Betsy was impulsive in every area save one. Where men were concerned, she'd never ventured anything. Let others wear their hearts on their sleeves; let others chase after masculine attention. Betsy had more interesting pursuits. — Regina Jennings

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. — Stephanie Mills

As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by political and social collapse. Paralleling the eventual extension of agriculture from Easter Island's coastal lowlands to its uplands, and from the Mimbres floodplain to the hills, Copan's inhabitants also expanded from the floodplain to the more fragile hill slopes, leaving them with a larger population to feed when the agricultural boom in the hills went bust. Like Easter Island chiefs erecting ever larger statues, eventually crowned by pukao, and like Anasazi elite treating themselves to necklaces of 2,000 turquoise beads, Maya kings sought to outdo each other with more and more impressive temples, covered with thicker and thicker plaster-reminiscent in turn of the extravagant conspicuous consumption by modern American CEOs. The passivity of Easter chiefs and Maya kings in the face of the real big threats to their societies completes our list of disquieting parallels. — Jared Diamond

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. — Saint Francis De Sales

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) — Paul Harvey

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. — Alex D. Linz

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. — Reeve Carney

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for. — Umberto Eco

So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible. — Ewan McGregor

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood. — Radhanath Swami

If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in this exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you. — Richard Dawkins

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk. — Mooji