Shawnie Rechtenbaugh Quotes & Sayings

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right. — Billy Corgan

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God. — Charles S. Price

I looked up at the ivory towers above us all. Nowhere else equals the feral design of this city. Tall skyscrapers that act as gorges hollowing out between flat cement dancing into narrow alleyways like bottomless pits. Building walls rusted the color of blood. Sometimes when you look down the horizon from afar the city looks wider than it is, like a thin field of magical lights gleaming with the hopes of children and idealists; a light on at midnight in one of the penthouses or the changing hues of the Empire State Building. Most of the time though, the city is covered with a layer of honking cars and greed, sirens and the war cry of solicitors, all full of brambles and impenetrable conscience; garbage, steaming manholes, and heat waves twirling smog and pollution through your lungs like mirages as you walk breathlessly through a boiling desert. — Bruce Crown

I wonder what ants do on rainy days? — Haruki Murakami

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything. — Faith Sullivan

There is nothing outside the universe — Lee Smolin

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. — William Shakespeare

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. — Swami Vivekananda

The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects. — Monique Wittig

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion. — Nhat Hanh