Huichols Quotes & Sayings

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world. — Alan Wolfe

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try. — Emily Giffin

They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman."
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. — Nawal El Saadawi

My heart drips into the cracks on the sidewalk as he leaves. — Amy Kinzer

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on. — Judy Woodruff

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go. — Jazmine Sullivan

For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. How does the man (woman) apologize for the boy (girl)? (132) — Michael Greenberg

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. — Chiang Kai-shek

It was in fact during the month of May 1889 that Carnegie was finishing up a magazine article to become known as "The Gospel of Wealth," in which he said, and much to the consternation of his Pittsburgh associates, "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." The gist of the article was that the rich, like the poor, would always be with us. The present system had its inequities, certainly, and many of them were disgraceful. But the system was a good deal better than any other so far. The thing for the rich man to do was to divide his life into two parts. The first part should be for acquisition, the second for distribution. At — David McCullough

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours — William Langewiesche

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul.
That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds. — Jeff Lindsay

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self. — William Stafford

Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas. — Peter Stafford