Harraga Algerienne Quotes & Sayings

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. — Richard Dean Anderson

cream of banana soup — Tom Robbins

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. — Bohdi Sanders

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. — Brian Eno

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ... — Katharine Susannah Prichard

We can't all be DJs. Someone has to do the dancing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. — Cass Sunstein

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie. — Tea Leoni

I'm not going to do any more solo touring. — Bruce Dickinson

Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat. — Hunter S. Thompson

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying. — Sydney J. Harris

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artificial and ugly division in people's lives, so that a man, while pursuing Heaven with the sublime appetite he thought of as his soul, could turn his heart against his neighbors and his hands against the world ...
Though Heaven is certainly more important than the earth if all they say about it is true, it is still morally incidental to it and dependent on it, and I can only imagine it and desire it in terms of what I know of the earth.
(pg. 23, "A Native Hill") — Wendell Berry

But whatever the quality of my works may be, read them as if I were still seeking, and were not aware of, the truth, and were seeking it obstinately, too. For I have sold myself to no man; I bear the name of no master. I give much credit to the judgment of great men; but I claim something also for my own. For these men, too, have left to us, not positive discoveries, but problems whose solution is still to be sought. — Seneca.

Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression to silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. — George Eliot