Wise Rastaman Quotes & Sayings

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot

The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. — Ernst Mach

And of all the rooms in my childhood,
God was the largest
and most empty. — Li-Young Lee

Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all.9 — Octavia E. Butler

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians. — Hugh Downs

The world that our senses and our consciousness habitually acquaint us with is now nothing more than the shadow of itself; and it is cold like death. — Henri Bergson

Though if infidels were to be converted by force, if those that are either blind or obstinate were to be drawn off from their errors by armed soldiers, we know very well that it was much more easy for Him to do it with armies of heavenly legions than for any son of the Church, how potent soever, with all his dragoons. — John Locke

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region. — Jessica Simpson

No trust is to be placed in women. — Homer

They the royal-hearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. — George Eliot

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write. — Mary Gaitskill

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. — Rigoberta Menchu

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them. — Susie Morgenstern