Palimpsestic Quotes & Sayings

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess. — Frederick Lenz

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere
to a happy place. — Billy Corgan

There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword" (Matthew 10:34 | Luke 12:51). — Reza Aslan

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic. — Michael Crichton

Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind? — Wayne Dyer

I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light. — Ben Lerner

People look like crazy, they do crazy things and they love their crazy life; stop inspiring them with your supernatural world and let them be who they chose to be. — M.F. Moonzajer

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. — Marco Rubio

Time is a gift, a treasure not to be put aside for the future but to be used wisely in the present. — Thomas S. Monson

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change. — Rhonda Byrne

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. — E. O. Wilson