Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Training
  • Exercise
  • Healthy

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Kid

• In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Long
  • Song

• Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • War
  • Earth
  • Peace

• I give away thousands of paintings for free.

  

  Banksy
  • Free
  • Give
  • Away

• A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Man
  • Language
  • Young

• My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Water
  • Boat
  • Escape

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Real
  • You
  • Enough

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm very, very blessed.  But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now.  As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• We would never comment on private correspondence.

  

  Prince Charles

• The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Thought
  • Goodness
  • Grew

• Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.

  

  Chris Hogan
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

  

  Ann Louise Gittleman
  • Process
  • Sugar
  • Detoxification

• Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • World
  • Desire
  • Moments

• The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Persons
  • Process