Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
JOHN BURROUGHSNot without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
LEO TOLSTOY -
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties although given the stifling impact of these.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY -
See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.
BARBARA ANN KIPFER -
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT -
My pent-up passion seeped out like gas from a leaky stove, your touch was the spark I needed to set my body on fire.
HAMILTON K. AMADI -
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Alcohol is like anything else. It’s only as bad as the person it’s being poured into. If it’s used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don’t see a problem.
BILL LEE -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN -
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
ERIC CLAPTON -
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINO -
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY -
Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
RAHM EMANUEL -
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
BAT MASTERSON -
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
ADYASHANTI