Sowells Farm Quotes & Sayings

Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions. — Alaric Hutchinson

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. — George Santayana

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. — John Dryden

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore. — Tim Rutili

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked.
'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said. — John Irving

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time. — Vandana Shiva

The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization ... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race' ... — D. James Kennedy