Lighters Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great silence we have imposed on the rest of life contains innumerable forms of expression. Where does our own language come from but this unfathomed store that characterizes innumerable species?
We are now more than halfway removed from what the unwritten word meant to our ancestors, who believed in the original, primal word behind all manifestations of the spirit. You sang because you were answered. The answers come from life around you. Prayers, chants, and songs were also responses to the elements, to the wind, the sun and stars, the Great Mystery behind them. Life on earth springs from a collateral magic that we rarely consult. We avoid the unknown as if we were afraid that contact would lower our sense of self-esteem. — John Hay

I'm so tired of avoiding the unavoidable, because I feel like I've been disappointing her for such a long time. — Gayle Forman

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks. — Ruth Westheimer

We get one life, Mara. You might live forever and I might die tomorrow, but right now we're both here. And I want to spend the time I have with you. — Michelle Hodkin

Charlene says:I hope I can be a star. I want to be able to set goals so I know where I'm going. It feels like I've been sort of floating around without being sure where I'd end up because I haven't figured out what I'd really like to do. — Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. — Lisa Loeb

You ask me what makes a woman comely?" He tapped one finger lightly against her temple and said, "Thoughts, missus. It's thoughts that make a woman so. — Kathleen Kent

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful. — Cherie Priest

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing? — Al Yankovic

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. — Christopher Hitchens

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot. — Dirk Benedict

Doctor MacKenzie says Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are. — Mercedes Lackey

I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the worst rhythm there is. The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known. — Saul Bellow

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith