Gobsmacked Origin Quotes & Sayings

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute ... Give your approval to all you cannot understand ... Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years ... Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts ... Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe! — Mikhail Lermontov

Who could have foretold
the heart grows old
from touching others — Leonard Cohen

All the particles of the World are in Love
and looking for Lovers. — Rumi

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed. — Lenny Kravitz

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. — Steven Seagal

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory . — Craig Thompson

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you. — George Washington Carver

Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce

The presumption took hold and grew ever firmer that it was the business of government to find solutions to all such problems. Any minister who sought to say that there was nothing that he could or should try to do about them was at once forced on to his defensive back foot by media and parliamentary pressure. At the same time, more citizens were ready to complain about the shortcomings of existing services, and more numerous and competent pressure groups, like the claimants' unions I had come across in supplementary benefits, arose to pursue their complaints. To cap it all, the courts began, and went on to widen, the practice of subjecting the administrative decisions of ministers to judicial review. No wonder that the ministers themselves, also wilting (as their American and French counterparts were not) under the pressures of increasing parliamentary business, found themselves in difficulties. — Richard Wilding

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today. — Julia Cameron

Take heed, Miss Mackay, you're too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back. — Heather Graham