Jurched Quotes & Sayings

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. — Victor Salva

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh. — John Green

For the Mongols, the lifestyle of the peasant seemed incomprehensible. The Jurched territory was filled with so many people and yet so few animals; this was a stark contrast to Mongolia, where there were normally five to ten animals for each human. To the Mongols, the farmers' fields were just grasslands, as were the gardens, and the peasants were like grazing animals rather than real humans who ate meat. The Mongols referred to these grass-eating people with the same terminology that they used for cows and goats. The masses of peasants were just so many herds, and when the soldiers went out to round up their people or to drive them away, they did so with the same terminology, precision, and emotion used in rounding up yaks. — Jack Weatherford

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. — Eckhart Tolle

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently. — Richard Norton Smith

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield. — Masaoka Shiki

The mobile industry changed Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'. — Phil Lesh

That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself to murder and cannibalism. — Ransom Riggs

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind. — Daniel Tammet

Nico's hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones. — Frederick Weisel

Book
beautiful
book,
miniscule forest,
leaf
after leaf
your paper smells
of the elements ... — Pablo Neruda

Behind all the dark humor, Bill was talking about the same things I'd read in Joseph Campbell. If you look at things, really look, if you lift the veil, you start to recognize that light is love, is infinite, is unconditional. Bill was saying that once you understand the nature of nature, you can let go of difficulties and sign on for the ride - knowing that it's just a ride. And — Maynard James Keenan

Great mentors give great advice. — Lailah Gifty Akita