Sunkara Family Quotes & Sayings

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not. — T. S. Eliot

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. — William H. Shannon

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes. — Warren Buffett

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted. — Rick Derringer

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them. — Patricia Highsmith

To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing — Craig Groeschel

Sometimes he feels as though God is nothing more than a set of jaws that bites down on his heart. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it. — Muhammad Ali

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth. — Erich Fromm

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. — Regina Spektor