Patchen Place Quotes & Sayings

women are Gods, women are the life-breath — Loriliai Biernacki

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric. — Barry Manilow

Any who live, stand alone in one place, together. — Kenneth Patchen

It was a strange thing: one never appeared to take a step forward int he heart or mind of this man. Those who wished, so to speak, to force their way into intimacy with him found the path blocked. — Alexandre Dumas

So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing that I have discovered. I will share it with you, like a precious jewel, fit for this occasion. I refer to love. Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world. Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees. It is greater than pride and wealth. It endures when worldly vanities fade ... — Michael Kirby

Had I forgotten how to cry? Was that possible? In order to survive, I had long since buried my emotions. — Dwight Edgar Abbott

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that. — Sarah Jones

The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations. — Dennis Prager

yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness. — Stefan Zweig

prone to fits of 'immoderate arrogance'. — Anonymous

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. — Hu Shih

I mean, we're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are - as far as we know - the only part of the universe that's self-conscious. We could even be the universe's form of consciousness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi