Fraught Def Quotes

#1. The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Carlos Castaneda

#2. At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Tennessee Williams

#3. My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a ... weirdo.

Jill Sobule

#4. Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the senses and toward the mind if he wishes to elevate his life and give it meaning.

Hermann Hesse

#5. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

Jimmy Carter

#6. Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

John Marshall

#8. I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Sheila Heti

#9. Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Ken Page

#10. Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Joan Konner

#11. What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Sitting Bull

#12. All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

Christina Aguilera

#13. That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.

Robert Downs