Jug Band Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between 'I love you' and 'I love you too,' the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can. — Anne Carson

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own. — Mark Goddard

Remember the old saying, my lady,' he said slyly. 'Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well. — Bernard Cornwell

The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy. — Robert Kurzban

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward. — Aubrey Malphurs

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance. — Rob Manuel

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us. — Tony Thomson

If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles. — Francis William Aston

Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art. — Margaret Atwood

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi'i

It's true. I ... I wanted to be born in the year of the cat ... ! — Natsuki Takaya

I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power. — Leeza Gibbons

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe. — Emma Forrest