Desiccation Quotes

#1. Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

Leonardo Boff

#2. Descend lower, descend only
Into the world of perpetual solitude,
World not world, but that which is not world,
Internal darkness, deprivation
And destitution of all property,
Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
Inoperancy of the world of spirit;

T. S. Eliot

#3. Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Isaac Marion

#4. In the Society, we don't call out beyond our own bodies, the walls of our rooms. When we scream it is only in the world of our own dreams, and I have never been sure who hears.

Ally Condie

#5. Responsibilities aren't obstacles you can run around or handle later; they are the key to reaching your long-term goals.

Mary Traina

#6. If my brother was made to kneel ... you will never walk again.

Conn Iggulden

#7. What language for such a refined and sophisticated northern lass! And a beautiful one. Even more beautiful when you're swearing away in such a ladylike manner!

Heather Graham

#8. With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

Stefan Zweig

#9. Therefore the first and most essential attribute required to see and use the opportunities is humility and turning away from our "ego.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Rafael Cruz

#11. One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

Lech Walesa

#13. Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

John Shelby Spong