Mavis Cruet Quotes

#1. Because remember, the talking about the thing isn't the thing. The doing of the thing is the thing.

Amy Poehler

#2. Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Edmund Morris

#3. The drunken instinct will usurp all others, unless the drunken instinct has itself been usurped, by its own excesses.

Robert Black

#4. I went to stand next to him, and he gave me his hand, warm and strong. "I am sorry I kept you waiting," I murmured. "I have waited for you the whole of my life," he replied softly. "What is another minute more?

Deanna Raybourn

#5. When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#6. There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Orlando Figes

#7. Truth is not of this world; and they were fools who looked for her in the bottom of a well; her temple is the grave! her oracles, dust and ashes! ("The Forsaken of God")

William Mudford

#8. I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone

All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel

Kait Rokowski

#9. All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and it could not be unconcentrated sometimes until daylight.

Wendell Berry

#10. Farewell, beautiful
lilies, elegant in your painted little sanctuaries, good-bye, lovely lilies, our pride and reason for
existing, good-bye you bastards!

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.

Matthew Donnelly

#12. Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.

Silius Italicus

#13. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Toyo Ito