Durdumb Quotes & Sayings

Arrogance is a blindness we choose. — Brent Weeks

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

Writing is like carrying a fetus. — Edna O'Brien

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted. — John Green

Vedanta is the teaching of the Upanishads, a collection of dialogues, stories, and poems, some of which go back to at least 800 B.C. Sophisticated Hindus do not think of God as a special and separate super-person who rules the world from above, like a monarch. Their God is "underneath" rather than "above" everything, and he (or it) plays the world from inside. One might say that if religion is the opium of the people, the Hindus have the inside dope. What is more, no Hindu can realize that he is God in disguise without seeing at the same time that this is true of everyone and everything else. In the Vedanta philosophy, nothing exists except God. There seem to be other things than God, but only because he is dreaming them up and making them his disguises to play hide-and-seek with himself. — Alan W. Watts

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words. — John Milton

Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so? — Stephen King

Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday — William Shakespeare

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time. — Eileen Caddy

Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious! — Doug Stanhope

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health. — Sally Schneider

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is for all men that come into the world once to die; and after death the judgment! And since death is a debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done. — Richard Rumbold

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. — Victor Hugo