Piraha Quotes

#1. One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

Daniel Everett

#2. Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

#3. One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

Thomas Merton

#4. I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

Lisa Kudrow

#5. Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

#6. The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Walt Whitman

#7. I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Linda Evans

#8. It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.

Kent Nerburn

#9. I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

Cassandra Clare

#10. By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

Eric Ries

#11. As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Robert Mueller

#12. The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone!

Avijeet Das