Kasinet Quotes & Sayings

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. — Edward Hoagland

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. — Rumi

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. — Don Drysdale

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning. "We love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it," wrote Goethe, and perhaps he is right. But I am not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live. I don't want to yearn for blue things, and God forbid for any "blueness." Above all, I want to stop missing you. — Maggie Nelson

When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day ... I warm up for an hour before a gig. — Art Farmer

She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked. — Joe Abercrombie

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. — Stuart Chase

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest. — Confucius

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. — Maya Angelou

A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be saved, this particular thing, this very tree." If it were to go, all would go
this city, this mischevious and marvelous monument which not to look upon would be like death. — E.B. White

God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it. — David Jeremiah

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot. — Malcolm X