Quotes by Authors - Page 51

Along with the mystical wonderment and sense of ecological responsibility that comes with the recognition of connectedness, more disturbing images come to mind. When applied to economics, connectedness seems to take the form of chain stores, multinational corporations, and international trade treaties which wipe out local enterprise and indigenous culture. When I think of it in the realm of religion, I envision smug missionaries who have done such a good job of convincing native people everywhere that their World-Maker is the same as God, and by this shoddy sleight of hand have been steadily impoverishing the world of the great fecundity and complex localism of belief systems that capture truths outside the Western canon. And I wonder—if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings at strategic places?
Malcolm Margolin
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.
Steven Levenkron
There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do not know how to function. They are like toys on wheels of manipulation and control. If you remove one of the wheels, they'll never be able to feel secure, be whole.
C. JoyBell C.
I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my mother. I wouldn't have blamed them at all if it was the latter - most people went to great lengths to avoid her on a regular basis, myself and my father included.
Heather James
You ask me if you can eat dinner in your room, but you don’task me if you can torture Éibhear to take you flying?”Truly perplexed, Izzy asked softly, “Why would I ask you that?
G.A. Aiken
In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.
Alexis Hall
In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess.
Erin O'Riordan
Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.
Nalini Singh
I" theory take a later of course without "O" and you will see that all are build with "I".
Deyth Banger
My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.
Deyth Banger
The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
Vikrmn
When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.
Claire Wong
Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.
Elizabeth Wein
Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.
Marcel Proust
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.
Ann Brashares
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
Anchee Min
I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said "DoloresI live in fearMy love for you's so overpoweringI'm afraid that I will disappear
Paul Simon
Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness―the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness―of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.
Guy de Maupassant
Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.
Eraldo Banovac
Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.
T.F. Hodge
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Guy de Maupassant
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
Barbara Kingsolver
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
Elizabeth Kolbert
Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.
Jasper Fforde
Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard.
Steven Magee
What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures.
Steven Magee
Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN THEM.
Deyth Banger
It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.
Deyth Banger
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Discard negative comments, criticism and influences.
Lailah Gifty Akita
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.
Daniel Quinn
How much does an elephant weigh?
Rhonda Patton
Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.
Maryrose Wood
Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.
Jonathan Carroll
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...Everything that’s not asexual has two sexes, male and female. Most of the time it takes one of each to reproduce. Then there’s the whiptail lizard. This is a lizard that lives way the fuck out there in the middle of the desert, and sometimes it’s hard to find another lizard to mate with out there. Therefore, what the female whiptail can do is sort of make her eggs start dividing on their own. She makes daughters, clones of herself. It’s called parthenogenesis.
Erin O'Riordan
Even if we ourselves are not personally scandalized by the notion of other animals as close relatives, even if our age has accommodated to the idea, the passionate resistance of so many of us, in so many epochs and cultures, and by so many distinguished scholars, must say something important about us. What can we learn about ourselves from an apparent error so widespread, propagated by so many leading philosophers and scientists, both ancient and modern, with such assurance and self-satisfaction? One of several possible answers: A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them--without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. With untroubled consciences, we can render whole species extinct--for our perceived short-term benefit, or even through simple carelessness. Their loss is of little import: Those beings, we tell ourselves, are not like us. An unbridgeable gap gas thus a practical role to play beyond the mere stroking of human egos. Darwin's formulation of this answer was: "Animals whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals.
Carl Sagan
Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.
Christina Engela
My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.
Ingeborg Bachmann
There's a bit of kitten in all of us.
Anthony T.Hincks
Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures
Pedro Okoro
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
Paulo Coelho
Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!!tttttttt - Adbhut
Santosh Adbhut Kumar
Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to choose what you want to be.You have to choose your own path in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.
Hyeonseo Lee
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.
Shannon L. Alder
Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one of their paths once it's blocked they run and run keep it again a path is blocked they run in this place again and again.... with the time the path goes small and small one moment you have one path and then a other figure comes and it has been blocked by it... so you are killed by this you can't protect yourself. It's the best attack ever made, it's called checkmate!
Deyth Banger
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!
Mehmet Murat ildan
FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)
Anouk Markovits
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.
Murray Kempton