Cultyvate Quotes & Sayings

Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans are necessarily the culmination of the evolutionary tree. No astronomer could believe this. — Martin Rees

The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality. — Harryette Mullen

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation. — Yogaswami

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. — Joseph Brant

The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

War is the only game in which both sides lose. — Walter Scott

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. — Timothy Noah

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. — Joseph Alsop