Unregenerative Quotes & Sayings

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. — Wangari Maathai

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy. — Rajneesh

I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity. — Lindsey Davis

From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise! — Alysia Reiner

I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer) — Erica Packer

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one. — Jimmy Hoffa

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner

She supposed it felt like freedom, if freedom was a fall into the unknown. — J.V. Jones

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed. — Gordon B. Hinckley

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. — Adam Clarke

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. — Paulo Coelho

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not. — Kerry Greenwood

I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros. — Hilda Doolittle

These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves. — Robert A. Heinlein