Perspective Statistic Quotes & Sayings

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. — Michel De Certeau

Justice in the extreme is often unjust. — Jean Racine

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15. — Dawn French

She wrapped her hands around my face and looked into my eyes. Her hands were old, but they were the softest, kindest hands that had ever touched me. She didn't say anything. She just smiled. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself. — Sheryl Crow

From a shamanic perspective, the psychic blockade that prevents otherwise intelligent adults from considering the future of our world - our obvious lack of future, if we continue on our present path - reveals an occult dimension. It is like a programming error written into the software designed for the modern mind, which has endless energy to spend on the trivial and treacly, sports statistic or shoe sale, but no time to spare for the torments of the Third World, for the mass extinction of species to perpetuate a way of life without a future, for the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, or for the fine print of the Patriot Act. This psychic blockade is reinforced by a vast propaganda machine spewing out crude as well as sophisticated distractions, encouraging individuals to see themselves as alienated spectators of their culture, rather than active participants in a planetary ecology. — Daniel Pinchbeck

My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. — Terry Tempest Williams

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands — Bob Hope