Loitered Def Quotes & Sayings

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus. — James Joyce

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy. — Nhat Hanh

Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity. — Frederick Lenz

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated. — Dawn Powell

Twelve is the border between childhood and old. — Lindsay Eagar

Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour. — Phyllis Diller

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. — Michelle Bachelet

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. — Lemon Andersen

I hope for my poetry to be empirical.
It shall suggest making love:
you will want the usual
in an unusual way. — Thabo Jijana

I feel your lips on me, Eden. When I close my eyes, when I'm awake. I taste you. You are my first breath, and my last. I feel you. — Mia Sheridan

You can't say it wasn't interesting. — Roger Ebert

There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon. — Bud Grant