Unsustaining Quotes & Sayings

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer. — Studs Terkel

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines. — Donald Pleasence

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. — Dennis Rodman

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't know you,
And you don't know me.
It is this that brings us together. — Kate Bush

After all, there was nothing preposterous and world-shaking in the idea that there might be events which overstepped the limited categories of space, time, and causality. Animals were known to sense beforehand storms and earthquakes. There were dreams which foresaw the death of certain persons, clocks which stopped at the moment of death, glasses which shattered at the critical moment. All these things had been taken for granted in the world of my childhood. And now I was apparently the only person who had ever heard of them. In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. Plainly, the urban world knew nothing about the country world, the real world of mountains, woods and rivers, of animals and 'God's thoughts' (plants and crystals). I found this explanation comforting. At all events, it bolstered my self-esteem. — C. G. Jung

A tear if you drink. A tear if you don't drink. — Ali Mignonne

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;
And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near. — Emily Bronte

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master. — Thomas Aquinas

A smell of burned hair and cotton wafted into the air as I spun toward my desk. There was a low whine from the desk and then smoke billowed out of my closed laptop.
I gaped.
My precious, perfectly brand new laptop I cherished like one would a small child.
Son of a mother ...
Friend or not, it was so on — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone. — Indra Devi

My right didn't come from a board of ethics. It came from God. — C.D. Reiss

I is what I is, and I'm not changing, — Paula Deen

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind. — Jessica Hagedorn