Kapjuk El Quotes & Sayings

We all do things we regret. It's part of growing up. — Sue Grafton

If anybody had ever struggled with a soul, I am the man — Joseph Conrad

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. — E.B. White

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

You can see where it's going. The extraordinary political apathy that followed Watergate and Vietnam and the institutionalization of grass-roots rebellion among minorities will only deepen. Politics is about consensus, and the advertising legacy of the sixties is that consensus is repression. Voting'll be unhip: Americans now vote with their wallets. Government's only cultural role will be as the tyrannical parent we both hate and need. Look for us to elect someone who can cast himself as a Rebel, maybe even a cowboy, but who deep down we'll know is a bureaucratic creature who'll operate inside the government mechanism instead of naively bang his head against it the way we've watched poor Jimmy do for four years. — David Foster Wallace

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning. — Linda Howard

The surest thing I took away from my BSW, MSW, and Ph.D. in social work is this: Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. I wanted to develop research that explained the anatomy of connection. — Brene Brown

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside. — Norman O. Brown

fact, that rule is going to be around for awhile. — John R. Kess

Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art - whatever - knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded. — John Lamb Lash

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us. — Heidi Julavits

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. — George Herbert

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense. — Eric Ripert

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me — Bhagat Singh