Xanthium Quotes & Sayings

the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts. — Amor Towles

Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth. — John Zerzan

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it. — Christian Marclay

It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago."
"The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'"
"Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition."
"Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit. — Prosper Merimee

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country. — Howard Fineman

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. — Hank Williams Jr.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics. — Charles De Lint

Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds. — Tom Verducci

Suddenly the look in Norah's eyes changed. The nervous air she had walked in with, lifted from her face. Her eyes closed slightly and then opened wide, revealing pools of chocolate confidence. The change in her facial expression forced me to take a breath. How could you not love a creature like this - Angel by day, vixen by night. — Angela Richardson

Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I suppose falling in love is finding that one person who can appreciate and understand why you want the things you want and do the things you do. — Jeffery Self