Velho Quotes & Sayings

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. — Alan W. Watts

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. — Doris Lessing

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle — John Ruskin

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them. — Carsten Jensen

The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: "What do I know?" and "How do I know it?" In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: "What do I feel?" and "Why do I feel it?" Most — Ayn Rand

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. — Bob Balaban

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out. — William J. Clinton

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. — Emma Thompson

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne

[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service, ... and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering ... service. — Ron Paul

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. — Elvis Presley

As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like smoking or getting drunk. I'm lucky I never liked the taste of alcohol - I know, I'm Scottish so what's wrong with me? - but I never even liked the smell of the stuff. It's the same with smoking, it never appealed to me. I guess I missed out on my Kevin-The-Teenager phase. — Andy Murray

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. — Edward Weston

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce. — Krista Tippett