Osservazione Etnografica Quotes & Sayings

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do? — Steve Wynn

Life is an on-going nervous breakdown culminating in death. — Sean Higgins

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself
will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows
some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history
But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without. — Kurt Vonnegut

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?' — Jan Karon

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'. — Confucius

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. — Herbert Spencer

Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears. — Rajneesh

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? — Jeff Greenfield

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me. — Steven Wright

A brick could be used in a smash and grab. Well, at least in the smashing aspect. A blanket would be more suited to the grab role. — Jarod Kintz

God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything! — Tony Robbins

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses. — Mason Cooley