Short Walrus Quotes & Sayings

One can't learn much and
also be comfortable
One can't learn much and
let anybody else be comfortable — Charles Fort

Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines — Steve McConnell

Idealism and realism meet in the actual. — Mary Parker Follett

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. — Studs Terkel

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes

Don't fear failure. Instead, recognize it as an opportunity to learn. — Jennifer Cane

I have heard it said - usually behind my back - that Black Lesbians are not normal. But what is normal in this deranged society by which we are all trapped? I remember, and so do many of you, when being Black was considered not normal, when they talked about us in whispers, tried to paint us, lynch us, bleach us, ignore us, pretend we did not exist. We called that racism.
I have heard it said that Black Lesbians are a threat to the Black family. But when 50 percent of children born to Black women are born out of wedlock, and 30 percent of all Black families are headed by women without husbands, we need to broaden and redefine what we mean by family.
I have heard it said that Black Lesbians will mean the death of the race. Yet Black Lesbians bear children in exactly the same way other women bear children, and a Lesbian household is simply another kind of family. Ask my son and daughter. — Audre Lorde

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction. — Paul Robeson

Define your uniqueness.
Define your greatness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life destination is death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — Anthony De Mello

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. — Jean Cocteau

Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent — Allen Ginsberg

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. — Bayazid Bastami