Tuseku Quotes & Sayings

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns ... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! — James Howard Kunstler

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up. — Marianne Williamson

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. — Joko Beck

Yet the greater the turmoil inside him, the more the revelations responded to it. It was as though the Quranic voice was able to see deep inside him and address questions he was barely aware he was asking. — Lesley Hazleton

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. — Alistair Cooke

I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini. — Luisa Tetrazzini

Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that. — Jay Asher

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin