Familiar Spirits Quotes

#1. The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

William S. Burroughs

#2. If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Philosophy is one thing, life another.

Marty Rubin

#4. A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Rockefeller

#5. He is just your type," Uncle Meng said gently. "Please, do try not to fuck him."
"How come it's okay for James Bond?

Neal Stephenson

#6. When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

Richard LaGravenese

#7. I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal
maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know.

Helen Oyeyemi

#8. Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

Walter Brueggemann

#9. A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary.

Paul Theroux

#10. Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Johann Most

#11. Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

Fred Wilson

#12. Justice comes before charity.

Pope John XXIII

#13. I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

Chuck Pierce

#14. Jason shrugged and turned away, the kids trailing after him. "I sincerely hope," he told them quietly, "that you learned a little something about the dangers of wandering around in the park on Halloween ...

Kaye Thornbrugh

#15. Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

Antonin Scalia

#16. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Phyllis McGinley

#17. Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.

Donald Trump