Successively Def Quotes & Sayings

It may ... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. — Mary Shelley

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads. — Terence McKenna

I feel the same inside, sure I do, exactly as I felt when I was fifty, or forty, or thirty, or even twenty. There are layers and layers of living on top, but in my heart I am that same girl. — Amy Blakelear

He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She — Marguerite Poland

People are delighted to accept pensions and gratuities, for which they hire out their labour or their support or their services. But nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But if death threatens these same people, you will see them praying to their doctors; if they are in fear of capital punishment, you will see them prepared to spend their all to stay alive. — Seneca.

For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn't as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter
nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travellers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden
making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him. — Katherine Mansfield

For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name. — Czeslaw Milosz

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world. — Ron Padgett

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties. — Randal Kleiser

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. — Colin Powell

Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me. — William Paul Young

Insight: if a guy I had sex with ever carved a notch into his bedpost, I'd tell him to carve one into mine too - and then to go make me a fucking sammich. — Kresley Cole

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual. — Sharon Weil

The light moves slowly down its flanks and gradually fills the lower valleys.

Kahn, Peter H. , Jr.
Hasbach, Patricia H.
2012-08-13 Ecopsychology — Peter H. Kahn Jr.