Five Themes Quotes & Sayings

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. — Roger Waters

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom. — Leyla Zana

Breathing in, I'm aware of the painful feeling in me. Breathing out, I'm aware of the painful feeling in me. This is an art. We have to learn it, because most of us don't like to be with our pain. We're afraid of being overwhelmed by the pain, so we always seek to run away from it. There's loneliness, fear, anger, and despair in us. Mostly we try to cover it up by consuming. There are those of us who go and look for something to eat. Others turn on the television. In fact, many people do both at the same time. And even if the TV program isn't interesting at all, we don't have the courage to turn it off, because if we turn it off, we have to go back to ourselves and encounter the pain inside. The marketplace provides us with many items to help us in our effort to avoid the suffering inside. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh. — W.C. Fields

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ... — Dawoud Bey

Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English. — Gary Chapman

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like. — Jeff Lynne

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs. — C.S. Lewis

Wendell and Tanya and I spoke at length about one of his themes that drives me with constancy, that of "good work." One aspect of this topic that I often regurgitate is his dislike for a society that celebrates the notion of "Thank God it's Friday!" Taking this position, people are necessarily saying that they despise five of every seven days of their lives. He said he first noticed it when he was teaching college, that people would answer the question "How are you doing?" with "Well, pretty good, for a Monday." This exposed a joylessness that filled Mr. Berry with concern. "It's a great harbinger of what's to come. If you don't like the classes about what you're going to do, you're not going to like going to do it." "More — Nick Offerman

But there is nothing, no trace that she's ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here again.
Because of me. — Christine Fonseca

You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious. — Bun B.

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result? — Chris Murray