Phantomatic Quotes & Sayings

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party. — Michael Thomas Ford

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong. — Kenneth Lay

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite — William Hazlitt

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered. — Ed Case

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic. — Joan Didion

The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of materialist science is an unbeliever. Nowhere does a scientific justification exist either for belief or unbelief. Materialism has the advantage that it is not seeking the transcendental, the essence, the cause, the force behind phenomena nor that beyond matter. But when he misconstrues the distinction between force and matter, when he denies the existence of the whole problem, he merely slips around behind idealism. The materialist asserts the real indivisibility of matter and force and to explain their seperation, gives value solely to "an exterior reason, born of the need for systemisation of our consciousness. — Joseph Dietzgen

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. — Drew Barrymore

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC. — Frederick W. Smith

I cannot kill someone, he thought. — Lois Lowry

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant

When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you were not allowed in. If you had any kind of a disease, we were in the process of trying to wipe out all these diseases. We did that by keeping people who had them out of the country. You might look at it today as, "Wow, that was really mean." No. It was putting America first. It was putting the American people first, and it was a realization that we can't take everybody. — Rush Limbaugh

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers. — Thom Yorke

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours. — Lou Reed