Wirreanda Quotes & Sayings

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates. — Yasmine Al Masri

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things. — Richard Rohr

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness. — Stephen Spender

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement. — Paul McCartney

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present — Chogyam Trungpa

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. — John Eaton

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top. — Art Alexakis

Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain. — Rajneesh

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely? — Laurell K. Hamilton

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain. — Jim Starlin

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. — Anton Chekhov

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them ... they could perceive what they have made of us. — Albert Camus

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi