Claimes Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good? — Elizabeth Wurtzel

[ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding. — William Deresiewicz

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. — Nathan Myhrvold

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop

If there were no shortage of human resources in this world, consumers could buy everything and have everything they wanted. Then there would be no point in wondering how to succeed. — Harry Browne

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day. — Stan Getz

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does. — James Dashner

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. — Samuel Johnson

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat. — Vic Snyder

I like your Jesus ... there's no doubt he was a great sadhu, most likely trained in India, but you know, he was wrong about God. God is not a judgemental giant sitting up in heaven, it's a force within us all - we are light bulbs in the electrical system of the universe. — Sarah Macdonald

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating. — Jenny Holzer

I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?
Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd. — Steen Langstrup

Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality. — Margaret Guenther

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious. — Sherry Turkle

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right ... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. — Michel De Montaigne