Kaupakalua Quotes & Sayings

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. — Ezra Pound

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life. — Henry Flynt

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. — Sinclair Lewis

I was a Marxist Utopian dreamer for a decade before I learned the vulnerabilities of Marxist theories. As I looked back it was full of deeply flawed arguments, but they were central to my thoughts in the fifties. I let their words saturate my mind before I went to seminary, and they remained in my mind like a ghost well beyond my years at Yale.The ideas I most loved were expressed by three in particular: the will to power (Nietzsche), the desire to understand the sexual roots of all behavior (Freud) and the search for radical social change (Marx). Even today when I speak of modernity, I am pointing especially to those three prototypes of modern consciousness. — Thomas C. Oden

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom — Walter Isaacson

From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali. — Steven Pinker

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral. — Demetri Martin

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. — Donald Woods Winnicott

Over the last year, I have thrown myself and every other available woman at that man. But he turned this" - she waved at her spectacular figure - "down. Repeatedly. Pickiest guy ever. Yet now he can't take his eyes off his new 'date'. You've beaten out millions. Tell me, was it as simple as swallowing?" I snapped my gaze to her. "I met him fifteen minutes ago." Jessica nodded. "In those fifteen minutes, did you happen to swallow? — Kresley Cole

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation. — Stephen Hawking

The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to
compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of
free will. — Dean L. Larsen