Jeanie Bueller Quotes & Sayings

The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put as ease with the world. Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises-a mother speaking downstairs. We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods. — John Updike

When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose. — Lana Del Rey

During its nearly one hundred years of existence, [the Forest Service] has consistently demonstrated a preference for exploitation over recreation. — Don Scheese

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body. — Henry David Thoreau

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. — Alan Moore

And I swear, she tasted like the sun. — S. Gregory

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. — Afrika Bambaataa

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Bono

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it. — Alicia Keys

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. — Albert Camus

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. — Richard K. Morgan

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success. — Dean Kamen