Prananda Quotes & Sayings

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried ... I am a rock. — Paul Simon

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater. — Sean Duffy

How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein? — Jonathan Franzen

Loving someone and then losing them would be much worse than not having them at all. — Amy Harmon

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. — Meridel Le Sueur

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly. — Izaak Walton

I've killed 20 people, man. I love all that blood. — Richard Ramirez

At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and the way light filters into and out of a scene. The deeper messages often escape her.Sometimes I take for granted the journey through the telling. At other times I curse the muse's power. But through it all, I live each day in deep gratitude. — Jacqueline Woodson

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows — Natalie D. Richards

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals. — Doug Ose

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed. — Robert Gilpin

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. — Judith Butler

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience. — Wislawa Szymborska

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. — Richard Dawkins