Native American Matriarch Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos — Dora Okeyo

He still felt coreless - he was no one, and he was standing here in the middle of no country. The place was counterfeit, a waiting room between connections, a transition from one way of being to another, which for the moment was neither way, no way. — Paul Bowles

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory

Wayne's World was a turning point-after Wayne's World, it was like, Who is this girl? Where did she come from? Let's give her another job. Have her come in and meet instead of read — Tia Carrere

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel Johnson

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. — Luc De Clapiers

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

As Darwin noted, "It is certain that with almost all animals there is a struggle between the males for the possession of the female." When males of a species battle it out directly, be it through the clashing antlers of deer, the stabbing horns of the stag beetle, the head butting of stalk-eyed flies, or the bloody battles of massive elephant seals, they win access to females by driving off competitors. Selection will favor any trait that promotes such victories so long as the increased chance of getting mates more than offsets any reduced survival. This kind of selection produces armaments: stronger weapons, larger body size, or anything that helps a male win physical contests. — Jerry A. Coyne

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms. — Jeff Koons

It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all. — Robert A. Heinlein

I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking. — Dana Gould

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Life is brutal. I've never seen anyone passing it alive. — Rosie Nguyen