Havets Skjell Quotes & Sayings

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. — Jeff Bezos

You can't change the music of your soul.
- In Esquire, 1967 — Katharine Hepburn

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform. — John Eliot

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. — Philip Sidney

Take one sexually inept wage-slave,'" she went on, "'one dissatisfied female, two or (if preferred) three small television-addicts; marinate in a mixture of Freudism and dilute Christianity; then bottle up tightly in a four-room flat and stew for fifteen years in their own juice. — Aldous Huxley

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. — Ken Wilber

Man is what his dreams are. — Benjamin E. Mays

All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge, — Michel Foucault

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch. — Ken Follett

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena. — J. C. Watts