Kansassonshine Quotes & Sayings

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one. — Marianne Williamson

Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. — Kofi Annan

What's that got to do with anything? — Umberto Eco

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They were all put in my life for a reason. They became a part of my testimony for a purpose. I just have to figure out what that purposefulness is for. — K. Weikel

Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person. — Temple Grandin

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky

I would have loved to have had a gay dad. At school, there were always kids saying 'my dad is bigger than your dad, my dad will batter your dad!' So what? My dad will shag your dad..and your dad will enjoy it. — Frankie Boyle

I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending. — Isabel Allende

Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with. — Peter Schjeldahl

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be. — Maceo Parker

Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose. — Charles F. Glassman