Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

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• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• I'm certainly not going to support diverting $2 trillion from Social Security into creating personal savings accounts.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Support
  • Social Security
  • Savings accounts

• Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Respect
  • Jesus

• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Important
  • Job

• I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Design

• The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Decision
  • Choice
  • Stopped

• Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Health

• There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hippie

• The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

  

  David Deida
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Life

• Conservatism is the politics of reality

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Reality
  • Conservatism

• Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Difficult

• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Change
  • Direction
  • Comparing

• The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

  

  Neel Burton
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Meaning

• People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • People
  • Help
  • Way

• Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Turn

• Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plans
  • Roving