Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

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• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • God
  • Parents
  • Patience

• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.

  

  Andrew Keegan

• Everybody wants to be on the field and show what they're capable of and help their football team win games.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Help
  • Team
  • Football

• I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Life
  • Future
  • Focus

• Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Life
  • Pretty

• He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

  

  Don King
  • People

• The other reason is because I'm a masochistic freak

  

  Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett All Saints
  • Reason
  • Freak

• Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Mind

• Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • High
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

  

  G. C. Berkouwer
  • God
  • Character
  • Scripture

• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Toxic