Saditty Quotes & Sayings

I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged motion was what first differentiated us from the apes. It freed our hands for tools and carried us onthe long marches out of Africa. As a species, we colonized the world on foot. Most of human history was created through contacts conducted at walking pace, even when some rode horses. I thought of the pilgrimages to Compostela in Spain; to Mecca; to the source of the Ganges; and of wandering dervishes, sadhus; and friars who approached God on foot. The Buddha meditated by walking and Wordsworth composed sonnets while striding beside the lakes.
Bruce Chatwin concluded from all this that we would think and live better and be closer to our purpose as humans if we moved continually on foot across the surface of the earth. I was not sure I was living or thinking any better. — Rory Stewart

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished. — Christian Metz

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? — Sean Hannity

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power. — Neil Gaiman

It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - modeling is a really incredible form of expression, but I got into modeling because I loved fashion so much and I really loved photography. — Jaime King

I want to heal my brother, kiss his cuts and bruises and lips, and save from what's happening in my heart. — Kate Avelynn

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality. — Barack Obama

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave. — Chip Ingram

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation. — Evan Dando

Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them. — Paulo Coelho