"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."

-- Toni Morrison

#Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes #Way Quotes

“Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..”
“Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die.”
“I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.”
“The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.”

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.76, Broadway Books
“We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.”

Source : "Fired radio host admits he'd be offended by segment mocking ill player" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”
“Totally. I think things are beautiful when you donâ€™t plan them, and you donâ€™t have any expectations, and youâ€™re not trying to get somewhere in particular. Youâ€™re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that youâ€™re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.”
“Accept nothing nearly right or good enough”

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