Decrying Def Quotes & Sayings

Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end. — Robert Altman

Closed head trauma is about as much fun as nude paintballing. — D.C. Farmer

No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend. — Jonathan Maberry

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness. — Mata Amritanandamayi

With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

They may think I'm insane because I left my wonderful job. I may think they are insane because they don't know the value of life. — Debasish Mridha

If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind. — A.H. Almaas

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank. — Jean De La Bruyere

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? — Ken Wilber

Never underestimate the value of good friends. — Todd Stocker

Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I think anything's possible. If I don't help the women in Afghanistan, they won't be around to help me. — Cheryl Benard Quoting Lorrie