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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Growing
  • Philosophical

• Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Ego

• I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

  

  Ben Savage
  • Girl
  • Nice
  • Romantic

• Nature is neutral.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Nature

• I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Business
  • Death
  • Decision

• There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Good
  • Work
  • Game

• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Success
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• He dredged in a pocket, producing from it a box of non-ethical, and indeed totally inefficacious, tranquillizers, such as could be bought without a prescription across the counter of any chemist’s. ‘Here, have a Kwye Tewd.’

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Producing
  • Chemist
  • Prescription

• 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