"I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him."

-- Herman Melville

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.”
“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”
“It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive.”
“I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.”
“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.159, Univ of California Press
“When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.”
“Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.”

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