Soma Brave New World Quotes

1. "The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits of mind. As they perceive that they succeed in resolving without assistance all the little difficulties which their practical life presents, they readily conclude that everything in the world may be explained, and that nothing in it transcends the limits of the understanding. Thus they fall to denying what they cannot comprehend; which leaves them but little faith for whatever is extraordinary, and an almost insurmountable distaste for whatever is supernatural."
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

2. "My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind."
Author: Anna Kavan

3. "A new beginning is better than an old ending"
Author: Bathsheba Dailey

4. "You. Must. Do. Your. Homework. I'm not kidding. Our world is full of dangerous things. When you neglect your studies, you deny yourself the tools to deal with them. Every assignment-"I lifted a hand to stop him. "Allow me. Every assignment is a rare window into the ancient and noble tradition of the Guardians, a key to the mysterious power of the Crossworld, blah, blah. Don't forget the part about how I'm not living up to my potential."
Author: Cecily White

5. "When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon"
Author: Dante Alighieri

6. "Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened."
Author: Desmond Tutu

7. "Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back."
Author: Eric Samuel Timm

8. "If the world was ending, and we were the only people left, I think I'd be the happiest man alive.""You'd be the only man alive."
Author: Frankie Rose

9. "The only sin in the world is ignorance."
Author: Henry David Thoreau

10. "For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life."
Author: Hermann Hesse

11. "Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments."
Author: Iain McGilchrist

12. "Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra."-Paige to Cassandra"
Author: Kelley Armstrong

13. "I pretty much thought everything about Mike was awesome but this new side to Mike was beyond awesome. I didn't even know what that was and I was too turned on to try to figure it out."
Author: Kristen Ashley

14. "It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over."
Author: Mark Twain

15. "The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other."
Author: Matisyahu

16. "Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint."
Author: Maureen Johnson

17. "Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it."
Author: Michael Schudson

18. "Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.'...I jot this phrase of invocation in my old leather-bound notebook on a bright, cold morning at the Café **** in Paris, and with it I'm inspired to take the reader back to the time I first met and became acquainted with the girl I call The Wanderess—as well as a famous adventurer named Saul, the Son of Solarus."
Author: Roman Payne

19. "The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree."
Author: Ron Rash

20. "I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!"
Author: Russell T. Davies

21. "It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!"
Author: Stanisław Lem

22. "Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music."
Author: Steven Van Zandt

23. "Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it's a long road out of Eden(...)Behold the bitten apple, the power of the toolsBut all the knowledge in the world is of no use to foolsAnd it's a long road out of Eden"
Author: The Eagles

24. "Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favors here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now."
Author: Thomas Hardy

25. "To let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened!But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact."
Author: Virginia Woolf

26. "Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,' and points to the dormant goddess in every human being's body. While the kundalini force is found in muladharachakra, she hypnotizes humans, like maya herself, and renders them slaves to the illusory. Kundalini can only awaken people if she travels up along the spine.'--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004"
Author: Zeena Schreck

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