Got Damn 47 Quotes & Sayings

It's funny how we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. — Habeeb Akande

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. — E.Y. Harburg

Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one. — Frederick Lenz

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it. — Robert Benchley

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source]
The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed! — Swami Vivekananda

I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it - and what it would be used to justify?) — Gloria Steinem

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then — Charles Dickens

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime. — Matt Ridley

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. — Scott Hawkins

I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road. — Kaskade

If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle. In fact, the truth of the principle is impossible to doubt, and its obviousness is so great that at first sight it seems almost trivial. Such principles, however, are not trivial to the philosopher, for they show that we may have indubitable knowledge which is in no way derived from objects of sense. The — Bertrand Russell

Your face
like a village asleep at the bottom of a lake
which is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the year
germinates — Aime Cesaire

But the right thing...was admitting that I couldn't possibly fully love her if my heart beat faster for someone else — Penelope Ward