Minching Quotes & Sayings

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive. — Paul Auster

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. — Andrew Nikiforuk

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk. — Terrell Owens

I couldn't stop crying. This fact in and of itself alarmed me, because for so long, I hadn't been able to cry. And now, here I was, weeping.

It didn't feel therapeutic. I know scientists promise that all the negative hormones are being released as you cry, but I didn't notice my emotional stability rising as the tears fell. I just knew I was crying, and my whole body was shaking, and I couldn't make it stop. — Stephen Lovegrove

Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the Aztecs and Incas patriarchal? It is far more likely that even though the precise definition of man and woman varies between cultures, there is some universal biological reason why almost all cultures valued manhood over womanhood. We do not know what this reason is; there are plenty of theories, none of the convincing. — Yuval Noah Harari

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Crowds create illusions. — Osho

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer. — Janet Autherine