Pretexted Quotes & Sayings

The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values. — Chico Xavier

Civilisation is a conspiracy. — John Buchan

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes. — David Sedaris

No matter how many improvements have been made, every process is still full of waste and rife with opportunity to improve. — Jeffrey K. Liker

Freelance investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was looking into the Cabazon/Wackenhut projects as part of a larger conspiracy investigation at the time he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991, allegedly a suicide victim. He had told friends he was convinced that "spies, arms merchants and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site on which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Nicaraguan Contras. — Gary Webb

It took me many years to lose my spirit, to unlearn thinking and forget the unity. Isn't it just as if I had turned about slowly and was on a long detour from being a man to being a child, from a thinker to a childlike person? And yet, this path has been very good, and the bird in my chest has not died. But what a path this has been! I had to pass through so much stupidity, so many vices, so many errors, so much disgust, so many disappointments and woes just to begin again. But it was fitting this way; my heart says "Yes" to it and my eyes smile at it. I've had to experience despair. I've had to descend to the most foolish of all thoughts
the thought of suicide
in order to be able to experience divine grace, to hear "Om" again, to be able to sleep and awaken properly again [ ... ] Where else might my path lead me? This path is foolish; it moves in loops, and perhaps it is going around in a circle. Let it go where it likes; I want to follow it. — Hermann Hesse

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done. — Stephen Bungay

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous. — Paulo Coelho

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century. — Jilly Cooper

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. — Hillary Clinton

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird. — ASAP Rocky

So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us. — Ali Smith

The winter night blew in with frosty wind, and the street lamps with their sputtering carbons swung restlessly and made the shadows dart back and forth like a runner trying to steal second base. — John Steinbeck

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in. — Alice McDermott