Expatriated Americans Quotes & Sayings

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops. — Rajneesh

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas. — Paulo Coelho

Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. — Judith Jamison

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. — Chaim Potok

Dried out and curled up in a ball, me, I am like tea. Waiting to be immersed. Willing to unfold. Wanting to unfurl. Wailing silently to be exposed. Whimpering till that day. It seems I'm wilting and withering away. — Dharlene Marie Fahl

Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doing
my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into
if I were ever on the verge of death
plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp. — Rick Riordan

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? — John Green

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently. — Chris Hedges

You had a huge impact on Ethan. No doubt, in the story of his life, you've left your mark everywhere. — Leisa Rayven

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be. — Scott Pruett

In the beginning - and neither can this be overstated - a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has done, that the attempt of white people to destroy him - for that is what it is - is utterly gratuitous, it is not hard for him to think of white people as devils. — James Baldwin

Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's. — Ryan Miller

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway. — Kent M. Keith

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human. — Lesley Hazleton