Sethos Currey Quotes & Sayings

In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leaf-wilt or browning, or just didn't look quite as good as the others, and he would carry it around to all the other plants. "Say goodbye to your friend," he'd say to them. "He just couldn't cut it ... " Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant, and return an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot, which he would leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat. The plants were the most luxurious, verdant, and beautiful in London. Also the most terrified. — Terry Pratchett

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. — Pierre Bourdieu

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do. — Meredith Vieira

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitable present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease. — Caroline Kettlewell

Peace without justice is tyranny. — William Allen White

The great thing about the dead, they make space. — John Updike

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier. — Mahatma Gandhi

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought. — Sam Harris

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source. — Richard O'Brien

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. — Winston S. Churchill

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what. — Arnold Schwarzenegger