Firnas Shuman Quotes & Sayings

The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. — Cheryl Strayed

[...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them. — Steven Brust

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world ... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. — Helen H. Gardener

Jesus ... It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name. — Kevin Hearne

I'm in the middle of another poorly thought-out, harebrained scheme that risks not only my life but all the other lives around me. How — Susan Ee

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects. — Theodor W. Adorno

Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted. — Lewis H. Lapham

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. — Steve Guttenberg

I think that smoking is a very good thing to do
it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust ... — Van Dyke Parks

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. — Captain Beefheart

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. — J. Martin Kohe

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. — Elisabeth Elliot

I loved her voice. Sort of raspy and breathy, but in a sexy way, not in an out-of-shape-smoker way. -Jessie, Love on the Red Rocks — Lisa Moreau