Evolutions Salon Quotes & Sayings

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned. — Dana Gioia

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate. — Paulo Coelho

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs. — Ray Bradbury

Civilization is paralysis. — Paul Gauguin

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill. — Wallace Stevens

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. — Erwin Rommel

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking. — Os Guinness

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. — Pema Chodron

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. — G.K. Chesterton

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. — Theodor Adorno