Pencerelerde Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag. — Seneca The Younger

To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But to be concerned with death would force any one of us to focus on the self and that would be debilitating. So the next thing one needs to be a warrior is detachment. The idea of imminent death, instead of becoming an obsession, becomes an indifference.
Now you must detach yourself; detach yourself from everything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he is incapable of abandoning himself to anything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he can't deny himself anything. A man of that sort, however, does not crave, for he has acquired a silent lust for life and for all things of life. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything, so he tries, without craving, all of everything. — Carlos Castaneda

Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already. — David Levithan

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire. — Ani DiFranco

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read. — Ray Comfort

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. — Alexis De Tocqueville

. Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul. — Bernadette Allen

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. — Lewis Black

The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it. — Anne Beatts