Spinetta Winery Quotes & Sayings

It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen, — Aristotle.

you see it." Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century, noted that if you think you're free and you don't know you are in prison, you can't escape. Gurdjieff saw us as being in a prison of our own habits of mind. Unless we understand how we are conditioned by our desires, we remain stuck in the reality they create, like a television program with an ad that keeps repeating over and over, implanting a subliminal message while we watch the show. BEYOND THOUGHT In the West we get rewarded for rational knowledge and learning. But only when you see that the assumptions you've been working under are not valid, — Ram Dass

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. — Robert Kiyosaki

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago. — Diablo Cody

A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains. — James Dashner

Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy. All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool? — Jonathan Franzen

Even the healthiest of people struggle to measure the world and themselves with an accurate yardstick, as the power of sin infects everyone's mind as well as his or her actions. — Adam S. McHugh

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others. — Norman Mailer