Magma Admin Tabitha Quotes & Sayings

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. — Peter Altenberg

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life stands opposed to the common or inert life, which reclines statically upon itself, condemned to perpetual immobility, unless an external force compels it to come out of itself. Hence we apply the term mass to this kind of man- not so much because of his multitude as because of his inertia. — Ortega Y Gasset

Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a fragile never-never land, populated with timid souls in continual retreat from the real world outside and even from one another within. — Jack Williamson

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems. — Deepak Chopra

I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart. — Shaquille O'Neal

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. — Emile M. Cioran

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it. — Mia Ryan

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry. — Christopher Hitchens

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks. — John Barrowman

All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being "left alone," is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant. — Glenn Greenwald

Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it. — Cat Stevens

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them. — Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes. — Yisroel Salanter

Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance. — Brandi L. Bates