Makani Quotes & Sayings

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. — Charlene Spretnak

In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values. — Amanda Tero

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. — Jerry Saltz

Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu
"fair wind". — Alan Brennert

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. — B.H. Liddell Hart

It is far more important to communicate that something can be done than it is to communicate what's going wrong. — Makani N. Themba

People ought to quit talking to the press. — Terry McAuliffe

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen. — John N. Bahcall

Care of the soul may take the form of living in a fully embodied imagination, being an artist at home and at work. You don't have to be a professional in order to bring art into the care of your soul; anyone can have an art studio at home, for instance. — Thomas Moore

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George S. Patton Jr.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. — Dick Spring

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first. — Sparky Anderson

Their Big Chief, Bo Dollis, would marshal them all together and they would start off down Dryades, with Chief Bo chanting one of the Indian songs accompanied by drums and tambourines, and the whole gang shouting back the antiphonal response. — Tom Piazza

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image. — John C. Danforth

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do. — Brian Tracy

I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with. — Johnny Depp