Sigmund Jahn Quotes

#1. In fact, I don't understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.

Beth McMullen

#2. Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.

Sigmund Jahn

#3. I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

Julia Cameron

#4. We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scraps and fragments of identifications. The people with whom we identify are, positively or negatively, always important to us. Our feelings toward them are, in some way, always intense.

Judith Viorst

#5. Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

Kate Forsyth

#6. To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Greg Egan

#8. His eyes made her think of water at night - full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.

Eileen Wilks

#9. They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

Anna Von Der Goltz

#10. She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.

Sinclair Lewis

#11. I'm quite proud of my rear ... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

Shakira

#12. Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

Sigmund Jahn

#13. It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Mario Batali

#15. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it.

Seth Haines

#16. Bring Your Child to Work Day
that's how we got George W. Bush.

David Letterman

#17. How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

Mohsin Hamid