Dancing Divas Quotes & Sayings

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? — Thomas Sowell

The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead. — James S.A. Corey

Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll. — Naima Simone

....The important thing is not where we die but how we live. Being native to a place is a labor of love and a life's work. It means stitching your life to that of a place with a thread spun from mindfulness, attentiveness, husbandry, pilgrimage, and witness. Stories knit these components of practice together. Flung outward, they clothe our relationships; flung inward, they map the soul. Stories enable us to enter and dwell attentively in a place; they enable us to travel and return, then eventually to leave for good. We need stories to stay alive spiritually: without them we would all turn into hungry ghosts. Stories are the only things we can take with us out of this world. They are the wings that bear us up or the chains that drag us down. In the end, it is stories that enable us to die. — John Tallmadge

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot ... we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody ... do everything you f
n' believe in, because this is what it's all about, — Billie Joe Armstrong

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. — Gautama Buddha

There is no such thing as inanimate matter ... there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy. — Jay DeFeo

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous parts of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world. Primitive man once experienced the rich and sparkling flood of the senses fully. Children experience it for a few months-until "normal" training, conditioning, close the doors on this other world, usually for good. Somehow, the drugs opened these ancient doors. And through them modern man may at last go, and rediscover his divine birthright ... — Tom Wolfe

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging. — Michael Lewis