Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
Carl L. Becker
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
Katee Sackhoff
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
Barack Obama
I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
Elayne Boosler
Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.
Dalai Lama
It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
Saif Ali Khan
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
Fritz Perls
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
David O. Russell
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
W. E. B. Du Bois
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
Kabir
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
D. H. Lawrence
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
