Loonier Than A Pet Quotes & Sayings

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment. — Peter Shepherd

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.
Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender. — Howard Zinn

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. — Hermann Hesse

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals. — Carl Sagan

When I first walked into a church, I was judged heavily for my life, and how I had lived, and that's part of the reason why now I am trying to make a change in our churches, because what happened was it was almost like something I had to keep secret, when in reality, Jesus himself hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors. — Heather Veitch

all about reaction as opposed to action. — Sherman Alexie

I own you. Like the sky owns the stars. You are mine. He slipped the gold key ring on my finger. — C.D. Reiss

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl R. Rogers

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director. — J. Michael Straczynski

Thanks for buying me dinner," she says when we reach her front door. "You didn't really give me a choice. You left your house without a penny and then you shoved the bill in my face. — Colleen Hoover

myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. — Anonymous

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. — Michael C. Reed

I wrote a few children's books ... not on purpose. — Steven Wright

And yet, on balance, affirmative action has, I think, been a qualified success." A 13-word sentence with five hedging words. I give it first prize as the most wishy-washy sentence in modern public discourse, — William Zinsser

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful. — Ramana Maharshi