Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Charles Manson

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

Janis Joplin

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Charles Baudelaire

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

Charles Baudelaire

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Antoine Rivarol

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Before I could stop myself, I punched his arm. “Careful,” he said in a low voice. “They might think we’re flirting.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m going to grab a cheeseburger,” I told Patch. “Want anything?” “Nothing on the menu.” I smiled. “Why, Patch, are you flirting with me?

Hannah Simone

Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

William Shakespeare

Who is it can read a woman?

Carolyn Wells

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

Al Gore

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

Sydney Smith

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

Anthony Trollope

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.