Qaquca Quotes & Sayings

Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions. — Jay Allan

Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick. — Jerry Lawler

My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check. — Simone Elkeles

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them. — Tyra Banks

Catholicism ... tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they were never there until the game was effectively over. It's just a ridiculous, obvious revisionist history. — Robert M. Price

How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire

Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world - the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities.

As this external human world is almost completely and totally estranged from the inner, any personal direct awareness of the inner world already has grave risks.

But since society, without knowing it, is starvingfor the inner, the demands on people to evoke it in a "safe" way, in a way that need not be taken seriously, etc., is tremendous - while the ambivalence is equally intense. Small wonder that the list of artists, in say the last 150 years, who have become shipwrecked on these reefs is so long... — R.D. Laing