Rautavaara Percussion Quotes

#1. Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

#2. How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

Dan Simmons

#4. I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

Jane Ace

#5. Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Rabih Alameddine

#6. If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#7. The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.

John Scalzi

#8. A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

James Bryant Conant

#9. Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

John Piper

#10. The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

#11. We are so miserably shallow Josh, how do we stand ourselves?

Nora Roberts

#12. We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Robin Williams

#13. God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

Grace Slick

#14. Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Robert Breault

#15. The easiest and cheapest trick for any leader is to take his country to war on false pretenses.

John Le Carre