Cindrich Quotes & Sayings

We can no longer afford to take that which was good in the past and simply call it our heritage, to discard the bad and simply think of it as a dead load which by itself time will bury in oblivion. The subterranean stream of Western history has finally come to the surface and usurped the dignity of our tradition. This is the reality in which we live. And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain. Hannah Arendt — Hannah Arendt

For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast. — Ken Wilber

Which traditionally aspires to advance virtue by laying vice bare. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them to the urbane pleasures of hot spas and fine dining, encouraging them to wear togas and speak Latin. — Catharine Arnold

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour. — Ian Watson

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward. — Madonna Ciccone

Gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you. — Noor Shirazie

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman — Billy Bragg

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way. — Mark Haddon

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets. — Jason Bateman

Books are the best type of the influence of the past. — William Wordsworth

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. — Thomas Sowell