Unorthodox Positive Quotes & Sayings

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. — Barry Lopez

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is. — Mary Pettibone Poole

No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people. — Taner Akcam

We don't plan funerals till the body is dead. — Nilesh Rathod

I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded. — Neil Peart

You do not need to be a millionaire to feel successful or be successful. Financial wealth is only one of many possible indicators of success. However, to achieve your dreams and life goals you're going to need money. And making it requires financial planning and goalsetting. I do not know of any successful person who has been able to simply ignore their finances. — Nigel Cumberland

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard. — George Herbert

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. — George Pierce Baker

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in. — Billy Bragg

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. — Alan Perlis

I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect. — Erykah Badu

Live your life; whatever that life may be. — Corey Taylor

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. — John Steinbeck

Our return to an image-based culture means the destruction of the abstract thought made possible by a literate, print-based society. Image-based societies do not grasp or cope with ambiguity, nuance, doubt and the many layers of irrational motives and urges, some of them frightening, that make human actions complex and finally unfathomable. They eschew self-criticism for amusement. They build fantastic non-reality-based belief systems that cater to human desires and illusions rather than human reality. These illusions, whether religious or secular, offer a simple and unexamined myth that the human race is advancing morally, spiritually and materially toward paradise. This advance is proclaimed as inevitable. This faith in our advancement makes us passive and complacent. — Chris Hedges

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. — Carlos Beltran