Dahner Quotes & Sayings

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. — Jairam Ramesh

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. — Russell Brand

We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. But the American approach
ugh. Rotten at its core. It was too artificial and grabby, Vigil believed, too much about getting stuff and getting it now: medals, Nike deals, a cute butt. It wasn't art; it was business, a hard-nosed quid pro quo. No wonder so many people hated running; if you thought it was only a means to an end
an investment in becoming faster, skinnier, richer
then why stick with it if you weren't getting enough quo for your quid? — Christopher McDougall

Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.' [William the road-mender about Merlin] — John Steinbeck

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.
-Jacen Solo — R.A. Salvatore

But the fact is, again and again in my lifetime, the vicious vituperations, the polemics, the dialectics, the sophistries of politics have become vapour and mist, while what remains is the literature and the art, which at the time might have been merely tolerated by the politicos. — Doris Lessing

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. — Alain De Botton

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! — Nnedi Okorafor

With a wall all around
A clay bowl is moulded;
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void. — Lao-Tzu

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. — Timothy Leary

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them. — J. Christopher Herold

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself. — Emily Levine