Hymowitz Last Name Quotes & Sayings

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind. — Frederick Lenz

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony. — Nicholson Baker

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library. — Jane Hirshfield

My body is not my own. — Mary Pride

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible. — Stewart Lee Allen

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. — Eugene Delacroix

Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information. — Meg Cabot

The bed of a tortured soul is always in shambles by morning. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

I am no more humble than my talents require. — Oscar Levant

When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to which we are devoted, we initially experience the new as the enemy or the slayer - that which destroys our "god." Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "Religion is the transition from God the Void to God the Enemy, and from God the Enemy to God the Companion." Only with death of our previous image can a new and more adequate one arise. — James W. Fowler

The sun is ours. The Atlantic breaks. And we ride it, we ride it, we ride it. — Kerry Kletter