Efimenko Valery Quotes & Sayings

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity. — Richard J. Foster

I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust. — Michelle Knudsen

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. — Henry Rollins

When a fool speaks,
his tongue ensnares him.
When a fool acts,
his deeds destroy him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas. — Carolee Schneemann

No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing. — Anthony Euwer

I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age — Sunday Adelaja

We earn to live, but we serve for a life. — Debasish Mridha

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it. — Graham Nash

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. — Archie Shepp

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. — Orison Swett Marden

Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. — Marisha Pessl

Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not. — Jeremy Schoemaker