Opendemocracy Quotes & Sayings

body, and I wasn't sure I — Belle Aurora

The center of the stage is where I am. — Martha Graham

The psychological pain
and the ethical shame
of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living. — Kenneth Keniston

No music while making love ... the sound of the love being made is better than music. — Jhene Aiko

To regret deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau

With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned. — Helen Keller

Be friends of everyone. Be enemies of no-one — Charles Wesley

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. — Sid Caesar

Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.' — Sarah Burton

the village, since they forbade us to leave — Moyshe Rekhtman

Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness. — Camille Paglia

They were so much alike and they become best friends. It was a wonderful relationship. They respected each other, and they never put each other down. With every step they took together, they were happy. There was no envy or jealousy; there was no control, there was no possessiveness. Their relationship kept growing and growing. They loved to be together because when they were together, they had alot of fun. When they were not together, they missed each other. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it sinful to expect another day. Now every day is another step in life. — Seneca.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
[Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)] — Salman Rushdie

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well. — Norman Vincent Peale