Overstrung Quotes & Sayings

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. — Anais Nin

You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it. — Brady Quinn

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. — Thomas Merton

As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself. — Taner Akcam

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. — Alexander Pope

Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book. — Arun Manilal Gandhi

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark. — Janet Fitch

Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located". — James Nicoll