Wogt Radio Quotes & Sayings

My witness is the empty sky. — Jack Kerouac

Living in a dream of the future is considered a character flaw. Living in the past, bathed in nostalgia, is also considered a character flaw. Living in the present moment is hailed as spiritually admirable, but truly ignoring the lessons of history or failing to plan for tomorrow are considered character flaws ... I wanted to know how to inhabit time in a way that wasn't a character flaw. — Sarah Manguso

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. — Elie Wiesel

Transformation always requires radical action. — Daniel Waters

The outcome is what you put in. — Jessica Aguilar

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.] — George Herbert

I've never killed anyone before. What frightens me isn't that I'm killing someone. What frightens me is how easy it is. — Susan Ee

Love - the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete - is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something. — Caroline Knapp

Children, language, lands: almost everything was stripped away, stolen when you weren't looking because you were trying to stay alive. In the face of such loss, one thing our people could not surrender was the meaning of land. In the settler mind, land was property, real estate, capital, or natural resources. But to our people, it was everything: identity, the connection to our ancestors, the home of our nonhuman kinfolk, our pharmacy, our library, the source of all that sustained us. Our lands were where our responsibility to the world was enacted, sacred ground. It belonged to itself; it was a gift, not a commodity, so it could never be bought or sold. These are the meanings people took with them when they were forced from their ancient homelands to new places. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. — Mahatma Gandhi

...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument. — Socrates

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? — Colin Wilson

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. — Sallust