Wanakee Hill Quotes & Sayings

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder. — Christopher Hitchens

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be. — Stephen Batchelor

Better that he gets used to it,' he said.
Used to what, the feeling of uncontrolled anger? Or a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket? — Ruta Sepetys

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. — Dustin Hoffman

Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us: — Joseph Campbell

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you. — C.S. Lewis

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. — Hector Hugh Munro

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts. — Noah Hathaway

I think one must do the thing
whatever it is (and it changes from time to time)
that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. — Henri Poincare

He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we know - but come!" It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, "I'll come - I didn't know."
"You can't help yourself now. You must come."
"I don't want to help myself."
"Come then."
He did come. He flung down all the barriers - not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day. — E. M. Forster

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. — J.M. Coetzee

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke. — Jerry Rubin

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are. — Deepak Chopra

Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core. — T. Thorn Coyle