Runemarks Book Quotes & Sayings

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' — Mason Cooley

My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart. — Nicole Scherzinger

The ultimate mystery is one's own self. — Sammy Davis Jr.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling. — Terrance Hayes

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to "renounce his personality," and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

The Christian faith contributed to the rise of the modern world, but the Christian faith has been undermined by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith thus becomes its own gravedigger. — Os Guinness

Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned. — Cornelia Funke

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart. — Anthony Trollope

Don't let either hate or evil conquer you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of the basic causes for your not being enlightened. Nature cannot be amended; it has to be accepted. There is no way to be otherwise. Whosoever you are, whatsoever you are, that's how you are
that's what you are. It is a great acceptance. — Rajneesh

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way. — Keke Palmer