Korgs Site Quotes & Sayings

We've reduced the wonder of abundance to the pathology of greed, and we've missed the fullness of creation for the want of the moment. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. — P. J. O'Rourke

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.' — Caitlin Moran

... I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line. — L.M. Montgomery

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in. — Andy Garcia

You can either be the victim of your own life, or the victor. — Catie Hartsfield

Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution. — Steven Pinker

It's extremely difficult to find smart people willing to start useful projects. Because sometimes what you start doesn't work. The fact that it doesn't work every time should give you confidence, because it means you're doing something that frightens others. — Seth Godin

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore. — Jessica White

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating — Wendell Berry

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics — Elie Saab

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter. — John Ruskin

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that. — Francine Rivers

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. — Romain Rolland