Tholeiitic Basalt Quotes & Sayings

For never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive. — William Butler Yeats

I had never before thought so clearly about all the scenes that took place when I wasn't there to witness them. And then, I had a stranger and less pleasant thought: not only was I not necessary to those scenes, and not necessary to those lives that continued to go on without me, but in fact, I was not necessary at all. I didn't have to exist. — Lydia Davis

Like Pi, we all have tigers within us. Lil demons which are a part of us. If you can't run away from them, welcome them, feed them and listen to what they will have to say. There is really not a whole lot to be afraid of. — Daniel Gottlieb

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting. — G.M. Young

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman. — Sunil Mittal

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who had the most to do with you and what happened to you in life, is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision. — Ben Carson

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity. — Glenn Haybittle

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done. — Samuel Gompers

Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings. — David Michie

Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyok
in the rain on a drizzly solo trek,
said, "forgetting my sweater
has made me much wetter.
I certainly do miss my polo-neck."
- Arthur Shappey, Limerick, Cabin Pressure — John David Finnemore

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. — Mike Tyson

A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery. — Marc Ian Barasch

(and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them. — Bryan Ferry