Chaldean People Quotes & Sayings

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt. — C. G. Jung

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems. — Fred Alan Wolf

Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield
a tactician's greatest sin
like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains. — Scott Kenemore

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others. — Paul Haggis

The violation of the existence and natures of things, of oneself, or of others is evil. Disrespect encroaches upon the space of others, and alters or empties their nature. Respect is respect for the limits, the boundaries, the space of others, and thus for their natures. Morally good action designates the active respect for others, for things, and also for ourselves. — Alphonso Lingis

the legend of Adapa. He called up that tale now to examine it in his mind. The story went that Adapa had been a sage of Eridu, city of the god Enki. He had been taken into heaven and offered the bread and water of immortality by Anu. But he turned them down because his patron deity, Enki, had advised him against it, claiming they were the bread and water of death. So Adapa missed out on the opportunity of immortality. He was clothed with new garments and returned to Eridu to die. — Brian Godawa

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at. — Johnny Cash

Fortune love you. — William Shakespeare

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done. — Peter Thiel

Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only was to survive your past was to find a way to close it off behind you, to shut one door before passing into another, brighter room. I was afraid. That was the truth. I was terridied of the guilt and shame that would come flooding in when I retraced my steps, turned the lock, and found the girl I had abandoned. — Alexandra Bracken

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. — Marlene Dietrich

I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Both my parents are first-generation success stories. — Solange Knowles

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background. — Arlo Guthrie

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks. — Alex Berenson