Shtick Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. — Swami Vivekananda

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat. — George McGovern

Whose silence are you? — Thomas Merton

When we sacrifice our own well-being in the hopes that our sacrifice will help someone else, we just get two people who are living sub-optimal lives. Here's the truth: Getting sick does not help those who are suffering of illness. Being sad does nothing to pull someone out of their own depression. And being hungry doesn't feed the starving. The universe simply doesn't work that way. — Kate Northrup

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work. — Nina Hoss

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. — Desmond Tutu

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. — Edward Hopper

Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on! — BeBe Winans

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express — Wilhelm Reich

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did. — Lupita Nyong'o