Sawanteneo Quotes & Sayings

As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies. — Lauren Oliver

But every
kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future. — Albert Camus

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason. — David Weigel

You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ. — Lili Tufel

Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio - the union of true communion. — Michael D. O'Brien

There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest. — Frankie Frisch

It dawned on me that he saw me as a sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees. — Zadie Smith

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses. — Steven Weinberg

The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above. — Donna Lynn Hope

He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity. — James Jones

Even when our neurosis feels far more basic than our wisdom, even when we're feeling most confused and hopeless, bodhichitta - like the open sky - is always here, undiminished by the clouds that temporarily cover it. — Pema Chodron

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world — John Smith