"Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare."

-- Dean Koontz

#Dog Quotes #Moving Quotes #Past Quotes

“You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!”

Source : "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.
“The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.”
“Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions.”
“...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.”
“We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects...”

Source : Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong (2003). “Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism”, Red Letter Press
“The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.”

Source : 1962 Rationalism in Politics.
“We went to see him later (on Saturday night) and he was sitting on his hospital bed, getting pelters from my missus for still being in his dirty kit, absolutely stinking.”

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