Dagara Quotes

#1. Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#2. Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#3. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.

Laini Taylor

#4. The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

Ryan Phillippe

#5. I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells ...

John McPhee

#6. American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.

Mitt Romney

#7. I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

John Engler

#8. Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

Sue Thoele

#9. Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Carlos Castaneda

#10. And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.

Mary Oliver

#11. Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

David Limbaugh

#12. [B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.

Clay Shirky

#13. In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

Jean Piaget