Automatize Quotes

#1. This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

Osho

#2. The academic is sharing in the bourgeois' loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends mortality. To be in community with that peasant, the Chapel Hill academic will have to commit class suicide.

Stan Goff

#3. It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca The Younger

#5. Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.

Alfred Tennyson

#6. Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.

Isaac Marion

#7. Every trial toughens the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Rene Descartes

#9. She listened to silence. Except the birds. The waves. A few voices in the distance. She would not turn to him. He had to come to her. He HAD to come to her.

Ella M. Kaye

#10. Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.

Eddie Gibbs

#12. Do you want a drink?" "You mean synthetic blood," she said after a slight hesitation. "Yes, that would be nice. A sociable gesture." "I'm all about the gestures. Bubba, you, too?" "Yes, ma'am, I reckon so," he said.

Charlaine Harris

#13. He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

Luke Ford

#15. I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Zac Posen

#16. These things let us know how we fit
with each other, even if we aren't sure
how we fit with everybody else

David Levithan