Browsing Quotes, page 32
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I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what is termed bravery is simply men being too obstinate, or too dumb, to understand their own mortality
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If a man has the sense that God gave a common bivalve – and I often wonder if those clams know something we don’t – he should realize when he’s found a partner who compliments him, makes him happy, and vice versa. Because the right person isn’t solely someone who’s happy with you, it’s also someone who’s not afraid to be unhappy with you. There’s no such thing as a perfect couple. Anyone who claims otherwise is either drunk, on Ecstasy, lying, or all three, and – bet on it – has at some point imagined crushing his or her spouse with a giant suitcase or some other large, blunt object. But if you can refrain from doing it, and eventually laugh about it, you’re making out OK.
Speaker: Mark St. AmantSource: The Not-So-Dolce VitaPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have found that the ends may indeed justify the means, but our experience, what we live, is the means. My family is the means. My life is the means. The end is just death.
Speaker: Rolf GatesSource: Death and BirthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I always say, if you must go to the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. – Birgitte
Speaker: Robert JordanSource: the Fires of HeavenPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Letting emotions go clouds judgement for a moment, but holding them in clouds it in always. – Amys
Speaker: Robert JordanSource: the Fires of HeavenPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance
Speaker: Hunter Stockton ThompsonPosted: 25 Dec 2009 at 9:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Speaker: Charles Dudley WarnerPosted: 20 Dec 2009 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Speaker: Anthony RobbinsPosted: 20 Dec 2009 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To enlist. To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life – that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing – I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all – plus c’est la meme chose, plus ca change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer.
“Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him,” he was fond of repeating. “That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers. But we don’t understand his answers. We can’t understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!”Speaker: NightSource: Elie WieselPosted: 12 Dec 2009 at 7:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. But remission of sin is not the only or even the ultimate purpose of the gospel. To have our hearts changed by the Holy Spirit such that “we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually” (Mosiah 5:2), as did King Benjamin’s people, is the covenant responsibility we have accepted. This mighty change is not simply the result of working harder or developing greater individual discipline. Rather, it is the consequence of a fundamental change in our desires, our motives, and our natures made possible through the Atonement of Christ the Lord. Our spiritual purpose is to overcome both sin and the desire to sin, both the taint and the tyranny of sin.
Speaker: Elder David A. BednarSource: Ensign, "Clean Hands and a Pure Heart"Posted: 11 Dec 2009 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why does it give so much comfort to be responsible for someones sleep? We all – don’t we? – want creatures sleeping in our homes while we walk about, turning off lights.
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? I was inviting a permanent, violent guest into my home. He would defecate on my bed. He would shred my clothes, light fires on the walls. I could see him walking up the driveway and I stood at the door, knowing that I’d be a fool to bring him inside. But I still opened the door.
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She liked that idea, God being in all things that she could see, because she liked seeing things and wanted to believe in these things that she loved looking at – loved the notion that it was all here and easily observable, with ones eyes being in some way the clergy, the connection between God and –
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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