Inflavel Quotes & Sayings

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility. — Daryl Gates

Everything in life is literal, direct, and personal - and very demanding. But that demand seems to be necessary. Your commitment is to be present. You're going to experience life as it is, rather than your expectations from the past or your desires for the future. You're going to relate with life in the fullest sense. — Chogyam Trungpa

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. — Amit Kalantri

I feel angry. I'm not proud of myself for this, or for any of it. But then, that's the point. — Margaret Atwood

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. — Linda Ellerbee

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting. — Dan Jenkins

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong. — David Cook

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority — Henrik Ibsen

Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure. — Barbara Kingsolver

The world by and large has to be reinvented. — Charles Handy

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life. — Mas Oyama

John you are not being open with me — Elizabeth Proctor

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. — Terence McKenna