Rispondere Picche Quotes & Sayings

I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement in high, fluted, English intellectual tones. — Thomas Merton

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative. — Nina Nesbitt

Let a woman too close, and while she sucked your cock, she sucked your brains and manhood right out of you, too. — Larissa Ione

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity. — Albert Ellis

I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see a lot. — Genesis Rodriguez

You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely. — Graham Nash

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war! — Christian Nestell Bovee

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.' — Paramahansa Yogananda

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. — Peter Straub

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. — Sonia Sotomayor

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence. — Dada Bhagwan