Despreocupado Quotes & Sayings

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. — H.G.Wells

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. — Terry Pratchett

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. — Luc De Clapiers

Value is what people are willing to pay for it. — John Naisbitt

Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he's with me. No. More like I am with him. — Nicholas Trandahl

Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal. — H. Leighton Dickson

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on. — Rufus Wainwright

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. — Eben Alexander

I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did. — Sam Andrew

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents. — Philippe Petit

As George Orwell said, it is not easy to become sane. For South Africa, perhaps it will take as many lifetimes as we have tried to put between the present and the Dutch East India Company. There are many minds if you take a good look. Eventually in the same way the measure of loss and grief does, karma will catch up with all of us. Post-apartheid South Africa is not more enlightened than her sister apartheid South Africa. You may know nothing but tell me what you feel when you think, see, act, respond and sense. What corresponds with thought, sight, action, response and your intuition? (The warrior plunders on) racism is especially a majority shareholder at all levels. We forget that it is a privilege to live in a post-apartheid South Africa. — Abigail George

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about. — Irving Berlin

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits. — Pete Waterman

In the Garden of Eden, Eve wore a fig leaf, not to cover her moist parts, but to draw Adam's gaze to what lay hidden in the undergrowth. Extending the metaphor, the snake symbolizes Adam's tongue, the apple the rosy, blood-engorged bundle of nerve endings pulsing within Eve's clitoris. — Chloe Thurlow

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget. — Margaret Atwood