Takozvani Ili Quotes & Sayings

Our Narcissistic Mother told us a Big Lie. She told it subliminally if not in actual words. And The Big Lie was this: If we tried hard enough we could win her approval and her love. If we were good enough, or wise enough, or beautiful enough, or that-magical-unspecified-ingredient enough. In other words, if we achieved perfection, she would love us. — Danu Morrigan

So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high. — Kirkpatrick Sale

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. — Neil Peart

Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money? — Andrew Barger

Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. — Khaled Hosseini

The M1A1 Abrams is like a shark, evolved to a point of absolute perfection. It is the undisputed king of the jungle. No other tank on earth can even begin to damage it. It is wrapped in armor made out of a depleted uranium core sandwiched between rolled steel plate. The armor is dense and impregnable. — Lee Child

I think health is another exceedingly important thing. — Joan Collins

It is only through effort that works are accomplished, not through just desires. The prey won't enter into the sleeping lion's mouth of their own accord. — Anonymous

She knew that she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in. Having Cecily about was a joy for Will; Tessa could see that when they sat together before the fire, speaking Welsh softly, and his eyes glowed; he had even grown to like Gabriel and Gideon, and they were friends for him, though no one could be a friend as Jem had been. And of course, Charlotte's and Henry's love was as steadfast as ever. The wound would never go away ... the haunted look faded from his eyes, she began to breathe more easily, knowing that look was not a mortal one. — Cassandra Clare

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person. — Queen Latifah

Immaculate Heart of Mary, keep me in your most pure heart, so that I may please Jesus through you, in you, and with you."117 — Michael Gaitley

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much. — John Steinbeck

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show. — Jake Epstein