Lessner Pools Quotes & Sayings

Just see the difference - in the ancient days, people used to "fall in love." Now people "make love." You see the difference? Falling in love is being overwhelmed by love; it is passive. Making love is almost profane, almost destroying its beauty. It is active, as if you are doing something; you are manipulating and controlling. Now people have changed the language - rather than using "falling in love" they use "making love. — Osho

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. — George Santayana

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors. — Walpola Rahula

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. — Bob Edwards

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for. — Charles Saatchi

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man. — Isaiah Washington

Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking. — Kage Baker

I love the idea that a family doesn't need so much stuff to be whole, that perhaps there are other ways to feel full. — Kerry Cohen

But porca miseria, the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more like everything all mixed up. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child ... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself ... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love ... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts ... — Mother Teresa