Quotes & Sayings About Losing Dead Weight

When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath — Sarah Kay

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity. — David Mitchell

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished. — Monica Johnson

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul. — Martin Buber

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long. — Bill Dedman

Then you can have me all to yourself! You can keep me in your dark little room
and fuck me stupid. You can own me. it's what you want isn't it? — C.J. Roberts

To really love another person, you have to know them - their quirks, their dreams, what pisses them off and makes them smile, their strengths, weaknesses, and flaws. — Emma Chase

Capital is kind of a banking concept. — Paul Singer

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man — Nelson Mandela

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through. — Adrienne Rich

Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts

This plague ... This curse ... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... dark place. We released it. We poked through the seabed and the oil erupted, painted us black, pulled our inner sickness out for everyone to see. Now here we are in this dry corpse of a world, rotting on our feet till there's nothing left but bones and the buzz of flies. — Isaac Marion

I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right. — Charlie Munger