"... I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare ..."

-- Joan of Arc

#Girl Quotes #Voice Quotes #Riding Quotes

“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
“Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”
“Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.”
“The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 25, 2015
“Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.”
“I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.”
“The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.”
“The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment.”

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