Makuma Yunupingu Quotes & Sayings

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why. — Jeff VanderMeer

This it is," said Siddhartha. "And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by a shadow, not by something real. Also, Siddhartha's previous births were no past, and his death and his return to Brahma was no future. Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present." Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

Don't work for money, work to learn — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly. — Bjorn Lomborg

And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway .
pg. 284 — Orhan Pamuk

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history
the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere
modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism. — Savitri Devi

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates. — Andrea Pirlo

We need the Fallen Legion," I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.
"And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in," Firen said dryly.
"That'll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand," I grumbled. — Laura Kreitzer