Kashkar Cafe Quotes & Sayings

dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon — Basho Matsuo

They were complicated years. The order of the world in which we had grown up was dissolving. The old skills resulting from long study and knowledge of the correct political line suddenly seemed senseless. Anarchist, Marxist, Gramscian, Communist, Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, worker were quickly becoming obsolete labels or, worse, a mark of brutality. The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere. Meanwhile, by means legal and illegal, all the accounts that remained open in the state and in the revolutionary organizations were being closed with a heavy hand. One might easily end up murdered or in jail, and among the common people a stampede had begun. — Elena Ferrante

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50 — Eugene H. Peterson

Grown ups' could learn a lesson from watching cartoons. — James Jean-Pierre

I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family's assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others. — Eric Trump

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court. — Thomas P. Campbell

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful. — Solange Knowles

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it. — Franz Kafka

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence. — Patrick DeWitt

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it. — Theodore Roosevelt

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist. — Alan Furst

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You've seen it. And that's the mystery of a musical that hasn't been filmed. You're bloody meant to go there and buy your ticket. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress. — Aaron Sorkin

I think that Sarah Palin really missed the chance to educate the public on what some of the challenges her son is actually facing. — Jon Soltz

You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance - to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea. — Mitch Albom