Quotes About Magico

#1. Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#2. Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.

Ransom Riggs

#3. And taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.

Denis Johnson

#5. An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Tony Hillerman

#6. Ena Mercant didn't believe in flaws or perfection. "We are who we are and we are strong" was her oft-stated motto. It was a motto that had been passed down from one head of the family to the next in an unbroken line.

Nalini Singh

#7. If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life?

Jonah Books

#8. Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#9. If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

Nella Larsen

#11. He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.

~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Milton Friedman

#15. I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson