James G. Frazer Quotes
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
James G. Frazer
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
Yuna
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, 'What man does with his aloneness.'
Kenneth Rexroth
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.
Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
John Calvin
If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.
Kat Graham
I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
Brittany Murphy
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
Han Suyin
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.
Christian Tissier
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Humphrey Carpenter
Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.
Mickalene Thomas
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
Norman Maclean
