Obviated Def Quotes

#1. I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.

Krishna Das

#2. Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

Bryn Terfel

#3. If you live amoung wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Krushchev

#4. If you were to let me fuck you, you would have to let me own you.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

Donald Miller

#6. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.

Lauren Handel Zander

#8. Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

Douglas Adams

#9. In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis De Sade

#11. Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

Phil Gramm

#12. Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done

Joni Mitchell

#13. I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas