Headsmans Axe Quotes & Sayings

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it. — Peter Cook

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most. — Meghan O'Rourke

Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha) — Ananda Maitreya

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself. — Krishnananda Saraswati

As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey. — Mike Joyce

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. — Mark Van Doren

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved. — Patrick White

Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism (how things are), we have been blaming the world for not fitting the beds of "rational" models, have tried to change humans to fit technology, fudged our ethics to fit our needs for employment, asked economic life to fit the theories of economists, and asked human life to squeeze into some narrative. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Gonzaga was the kind of place you'd not even think about loving until you'd left it for a couple of years. — Pat Conroy

Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff. — Matthew B. Crawford

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on? — Lesley Ann Warren

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. — Mark Kozelek