Caves Quotes

360 quotes by 299 authors

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's… — Jean Baudrillard
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later,… — Eileen Myles
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw… — Bon Scott
Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… — Herman Wouk
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a… — Jack Handey
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of… — Charles Lyell
I didnâ€™t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another â€” bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a… — Karen Russell
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear… — Joseph Campbell
Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create… — Tucker Max
Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. Itâ€™s a little like having live cave-level access for… — Matt Taibbi
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer… — Ibn Khaldun
Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not… — Javed Akhtar
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. — Duane Chapman
I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I… — Mariette Hartley
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And… — Hilma Wolitzer
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv

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