Sarianne Durie Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world — Malcolm Gladwell

Political leaders and presidents were shot at or assassinated about as often as rap artists are today. An unpopular war cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Those who bravely served our country returned home to be treated with unwarranted scorn. Promiscuous sex and hallucinatory drugs were celebrated as the path to enlightenment. Race riots set major cities aflame. Police were called pigs. And no one over the age of thirty was to be trusted. Worse, some people wore leisure suits - in public - and they were proud of it. — Larry Osborne

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains. — Terence McKenna

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To destroy the present in the name of the future is a crime; to destroy the present in the name of the past is insanity. — Svet Di-Nahum

Never underestimate the power of a "reasonable-sounding argument", especially to people who are not scientists. — Angelic-Demon

I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination. — J. Edgar Hoover

Well." Ringil gave the Throne Eternal captain another brittle little smile. "You know, the thing about fucking is, it's a lot less wear and tear than trying to kill each other with bits of steel. And it's the sort of thing that does tend to lead to confidences and favours if you play it right. Ask any woman, she'll tell you that. Unless of course your experiences in that direction are limited, as, come to think of it, yours probably are, to whores and rape. — Richard K. Morgan

The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation — Sunday Adelaja

Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them. — Mary Norton

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic. — Ameen Rihani