Quotes & Sayings About Not Giving A Damn Anymore

A few years ago a practising Harley Street psychiatrist, who was dabbling in Buddhism, came to see me. I opened the conversation by saying 'At some time in his life, every intelligent man questions himself about the purpose of his existence.' Immediately, and with the most manifest disapproval, the psychiatrist replied 'Anybody who thinks such thoughts is mentally diseased.' Thus with a single gesture, he swept half-a-dozen major philosophers (some of whom have held chairs in universities - which guarantees their respectability if not their philosophy) into the lunatic asylum - the criminal lunatic asylum, to judge from his tone. I have never seen a man in such a funk. — Nanavira Thera

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. — Matt Dillon

I love my burdens. — Dennis Lehane

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it. — Miguel De Cervantes

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to. — Owen Jones

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest. — David A. Bednar

Do demons even have to brush their teeth?"
Chris chuckled. "I brush my teeth and even floss sometimes. I also eat, shower and sleep, too. — David Estes

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy. — Giancarlo Esposito

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went. — Zebulon Pike

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV]. — Gena Rowlands

I told you Clara, I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none of them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just that you're young, which you are, but what I want is a voice. A way a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her. — Joyce Carol Oates

You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers. — Lisa Unger

I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would have to defend themselves from attack by blacks (and really believed someone was fomenting a racial war in which black people would rise up and attack them), black people mostly without arms huddled inside the ghettos feeling that they were surrounded by armed whites. — John Howard Griffin

Life loiters at the book's first page,
Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson