Escravo De Madame Quotes & Sayings

The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -John Dos Passos — John Dos Passos

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing. — Eliza Coupe

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream. — W. H. Auden

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter. — Keith Carter

I saw the black seam of your stocking
Running down the side of the mountain like a creek
I put the whiskey down and listened

from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado — Frank Stanford

In the Scotland of the early seventeenth century, an old woman living alone in Kirkcudbrightshire was accused of witchcraft and on conviction was rolled downhill in a blazing tar barrel. One of the charges against her was that she walked withershins round a well near her cottage which was used by other people. The well was afterwards known as the Witch's Well. These episodes must surely serve as cautionary tales to anyone tempted to transgress the usual custom of walking deasil round a holy well. — Colin Bord

Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers. — Wendell Berry

It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that. — Khaled Mashal

The purpose of the practice of meditation is to experience the gaps. We do nothing, essentially, and see what that brings - either discomfort or relief, whatever the case may be. The starting point for the practice of meditation is the mindfulness discipline of developing peace. The peace we experience in meditation is simply this state of doing nothing, which is experiencing the absence of speed. — Chogyam Trungpa

Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory
But for the transient, the passing that does not remain. — Yehuda Amichai

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. — Elaine Liner

Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat? — Waylon Jennings

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true. — Richard Dawkins