Freediving Spearfishing Quotes & Sayings

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. — Walter Benjamin

I call up Amazon. It seems to me they do a major thing wrong, right. I mean, they protect me against the loss of a $50 liability I have of something on my credit card, but they do nothing to protect me against somebody who is watching to see what books I'm interested in, what new perversions I've developed. — Whitfield Diffie

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight — Vladimir Nabokov

I am not, for all my frustration, opposed to capitalism. Most Americans, poor ones included, aren't. We like the idea that anyone can succeed. What I am opposed to is the sort of capitalism that sucks the life out of a whole bunch of the citizenry and then demands that they do better with whatever they have left. If we could just agree that poor people are doing the necessary grunt work and that there is dignity in that too, we'd be able to make it less onerous. — Linda Tirado

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it. — Reese Witherspoon

Why do adults have to diminish everything by feeling they need to end meetings with a false positive? It's so selfish. They say it not because they believe it, but because it helps them feel some kind of accomplishment when they walk away. Like they've done their job. But what do they leave behind?
It's like when teachers tell Tyler that he should be a lawyer because he's good at arguing, but meanwhile he can't pass grade nine. No one wants to say he's stupid, or that he's probably going to end up in jail like his brother, so they fill his head with these stupid dreams until he's eighteen, with no credits and totally messed up for life. I say, tell the truth, squash the dream, and stop with the second chances. — Lesley Anne Cowan

Happiness... is freedom from fear. — Jon Hamm

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes ... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

thread, but it's black. — Mark Twain

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. — Jeff Koons

You have to train your mind like you train your body. — Bruce Jenner

Some things were above my pay grade. Actually, there were things that slithered on their bellies that were higher than my pay grade. — Jodi Taylor

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. — Henry Mayhew