Mads Langer Quotes & Sayings

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone. — Simone Weil

At times Ren felt like he was reading fragments of his own dreams, reassembled into words that pulled at his heart, as if there were a string tied somewhere inside his chest that ran down into the book and attached itself to the characters, drawing him through the pages. — Hannah Tinti

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard. — Terry Kath

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Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities — Robert Stephens

She knelt beside him. "Now, do you see this?" She plucked a weed from the dirt. "It and everything like it are weeds. Weeds are bad. But those," she said, pointing to the flower stems, "those are good. Right now, bad is murdering good, so we've got to go to war and help." Horror dawned on his features. "A fancy way of saying I am to ... garden?" He shuddered. "You'll be doing more than that, thank you. You'll be saving something beautiful. — Gena Showalter

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the the stars, not what separated them. They glittered in his vision, filling his eyes, and he had no choice but to assign them a position of importance in the cosmic scheme. The space traveler saw things differently. He was made aware that the universe consisted of emptiness, that the suns and nebulae were almost an irrelevancy, that the stars were nothing more than a whiff of gas diffusing into infinity. And sooner or later that knowledge began to hurt. — Bob Shaw

In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married. — Juan Pablo Galavis

That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. ... If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy's best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero. — Gene Sharp