Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

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LifeFutureLiveMountainGoalTop

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

John Eaton

SchoolMeImportantFoundDisciples

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

Matthew Weiner

BelieveHardTurnAgainstVeryEach

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

Jeff Hardy

WaterRootsEarthBloodWayRight

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

Simon Mainwaring

LifeMeCountryInfiniteFirst

Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.

Tracee Ellis Ross

LoveDailyCommunityHealthPolitics

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

CountryPlaceRunWorstWholeVast

I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.

David Shields

SaidEverythingDisagreeEverJohn

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Chuck Palahniuk

GodPetDownToiletJustMaybe

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Brandon Sanderson

I AmFindImportantBuildWriteWho

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

Aristide Briand

I AmViewPoliticalPoint Of View

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

PersonAlivePossibleNormalDecent

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

ThinkPhilosophySafeMostProclaim

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