Cyndias Quotes & Sayings

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. — Eckhart Tolle

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. — Bill Watterson

He took a couple of steps. "I clink," he said. "It's undignified."
"Everybody clinks. It's what soldiers do. — K.J. Parker

You want me?"
"Every bit of you," he mumbles. — Miranda Kenneally

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible. — Buzz Aldrin

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised. — Samuel Johnson

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. — Vladimir Putin

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal. — Hunter S. Thompson

She used to grip me so tightly that the only way I could put her down was to pry her loose, one digit at a time. For two years, I had bruises from her fingers and toes all over my body. — Karen Joy Fowler

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic. — Andrew Bird

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. — Ayn Rand

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. — Taisen Deshimaru

I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine!
Redd Heart — Frank Beddor

I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range ... The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap. — Serena Williams