Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn.… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Copy Share Image
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore.… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
