Selection Series The Elite Quotes & Sayings

No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me. — Kenji Yoshino

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world. — Randy Alcorn

Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become. — Nigel Warburton

Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor — Jayelle Cochran

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness. — Martin J. Whitman

Every beginning is a new challenge. I welcome the challenges — Mohammed Sekouty

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal. — Steve Earle

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power. — Charles Bukowski

decided then that I don't want to spend time thinking about things that I don't want to have a place in my life. You have to kick people out of your head as forcefully as you'd kick someone out of your house if you didn't want them to be there. — Sophia Amoruso

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master. — John Woo