Meshala Quotes & Sayings

If I'd known about all the masturbating I would generate - well, that would've been extraordinarily weird from many angles and I'm glad it didn't come up, as it were. — Carrie Fisher

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson

If you fall in love with a writer, find your story in a book some day. — Arvind Parashar

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. — E. O. Wilson

The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can. — Lewis Thomas

As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible? — Melanie Joy

Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said. — Connie Willis

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy. — Danny Meyer

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder

If we bring mindfulness into every aspect of our life, we cannot help but experience life's miracles. THE FIRST MIRACLE is to be present and able to touch deeply the miracles of life, like the blue sky, a flower, the smile of a child. THE SECOND MIRACLE is to make the other - the sky, a flower, a child - present also. Then we have the opportunity to see each other deeply. THE THIRD MIRACLE is to nourish the object of your attention with full awareness and appropriate attention. THE FOURTH MIRACLE is to relieve the suffering of others. — Wietske Vriezen

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life. — Samuel Butler

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life. — Emoke B'Racz

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. — Johan Huizinga

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it. — Bob McNair