quotes about Chanting

“I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.”

“Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.”

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

Source : W. Meitcke, William Golding (1984). “William Golding's Lord of the Flies”, p.49, Barron's Educational Series

“Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!”

“It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!”

“The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.”

“The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.”

Source : "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

“If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.”

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”

“Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.”