Tribal Magic Quotes & Sayings

How much is a life worth? This question is the first that enters Zoey's mind each morning, and it is the last she thinks before falling off to sleep every night. Can a price be put on such a thing? And if it could be, would one ever be able to pay it? — Joe Hart

It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls. — Stephen Colbert

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future. — Philip James Bailey

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you. — Chris Rock

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score. — Jermain Defoe

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months. — Karen Allen

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East. — Neill Blomkamp

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural. — Rajneesh

You can't erase me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow. — Mahatma Gandhi

In our society a man is known by the company he owns. — Gerald F. Lieberman

I thought of all my sickness, all my anger, all my fear. All that was just the darkness, just the storm. I got lost in it. But there's always the other side of the storm. And the people who get you there. — Dan Gemeinhart

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus.
Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt. — Peter J. Carroll