Leita Hart Fanta Quotes & Sayings

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

United States spends more on pet grooming than it does on fusion research. — Brian Cox

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. — Jim Butcher

All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.
You know where you can go?
The f**k to sleep. — Adam Mansbach

I love doing comedy. — Ashley Benson

Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Instinctively, and against my better judgement, I pull her closer to me. She rests her head on my shoulder as if it is the most natural thing in all the worlds to do.
But it's a mistake. I become aware of her heart beating, her lungs expanding with every breath, her skin beneath my touch.
She moves, and her head slides to my chest. Shifting into sleep, she wraps her arm around my waist. Now I'm aware of my heart beating too, slowly, in sync with hers. I know I should push her away. But if my life depended on it, right now, that would be impossible. — Marianne Curley

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music. — David Bowie

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. — Barack Obama

Once you're signed to a label you compromise. — Talib Kweli

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed. — Umberto Eco