"But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me."

-- Joycelyn Elders

#Stupid Quotes #Humorous Quotes #People Quotes

“Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'”
“To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make clean, make pure. The weed, tough As the rock it leaps against, Unless plucked to the last Live fiber Will plunge up through dark again. The weed also has the desire To make clean, Make pure, there against the rock.”

Source : Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr
“Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!”
“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.”
“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”

Source : Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.584, Penguin
“Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try.”
“The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,- That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee.”

Source : Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1855). “Poems”, p.120
“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”

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