David Deida Quotes
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.David Deida
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
Iris Apfel -
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard -
At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
Oswald Chambers
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
Walker Percy -
Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
Dan Castellaneta -
Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
Alicia Keys -
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
Kingsley Amis -
Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
Oprah Winfrey -
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
L. Neil Smith
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
Eleanor Clift -
People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
Tahereh Mafi -
I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.”
Steven Millhauser -
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
Ethan Canin -
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.
William P. Young -
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
Dan Blocker