Fruitito Quotes & Sayings

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people. — Ethel Wilson

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. — Thomas Browne

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she. — Honore De Balzac

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you. — Harry Browne

It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence. — Melanie Shankle

Oh no, oh no ... don't lift me, don't lift me. — Robert Kennedy

Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency. It happens to be timeless time. I know that I am listening to a rhythm which has been just the same for millions of years, and it takes me out of a world of relentlessly ticking clocks. Clocks for some reason or other always seem to be marching, and, as with armies, marching is never to anything but doom. But in the motion of waves there is no marching rhythm. It harmonizes with our very breathing. It does not count our days. Its pulse is not in the stingy spirit of measuring, of marking out how much still remains. It is the breathing of eternity, like the God Brahma of Indian mythology inhaling and exhaling, manifesting and dissolving the worlds, forever. As a mere conception this might sound appallingly monotonous, until you come to listen to the breaking and washing of waves. — Alan W. Watts

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. — Ridley Scott

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love. — Alexandra Fuller

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg. — Ernest Hemingway,

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting. — Miranda July