Primally Quotes & Sayings

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die. — Saib Tabrizi

Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"
Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets of Constantinople."
Alp Arslan: "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you, and set you free. — Alp Arslan

IT IS STARTLING to think that all Europe once looked like this Puszcza. To enter it is to realize that most of us were bred to a pale copy of what nature intended. Seeing elders with trunks seven feet wide, or walking through stands of the tallest trees here - gigantic Norway spruce, shaggy as Methuselah - should seem as exotic as the Amazon or Antarctica to someone raised among the comparatively puny, second-growth woodlands found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Instead, what's astonishing is how primally familiar it feels. And, on some cellular level, how complete. — Alan Weisman

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. — Swami Vivekananda

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind. — John Darnielle

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns. — Franz Wright

Instead, choose decaf for your second cup of the day, engage in good sleeping habits, moderate insulin production in your diet, exercise Primally and boost energy naturally with cold water plunges, deep breathing sequences, napping or quick exercise breaks after long periods of inactivity. — Mark Sisson

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. — Christopher Hitchens

Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies. — Walter Kirn

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. — Stephen Jay Gould

Am I not a fearsome enemy?"
"You frighten me primally. — Kevin Hearne

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up. — Shunryu Suzuki

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human. — ZZ Packer