Philisophical Quotes

Perhaps Clarence's knowledge of the enormous day-to-day expense of the war machine was too much for a man who's own father had insisted, "Never to waste salt on a radish! ~ Kevin Moccia

When the golden rabbit had safely emerged out of the forbidden passage, he pondered the direction back to his lair. "How can it be I don't live where I used to live anymore? How can that be? Alright then….alright. What a strange dream…I feel as though I've been eaves dropping in tempo…but not in time!" The hare hopped off, humming passages from Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue". ~ Kevin Moccia

Death is like tiger Richard Parker in the film 'Life Of Pie', it
keeps you alive, if you are awake, attentive and keep a watch
on it. It kills you, if you ignore it ~ Soman Gouda

Assured that there would be a meal set aside for him somewhere, the beagle pulled his mind off the gnawing emptiness in his stomach, mounted the flattened stump, marched into the center and stood, stock-still, on his vein-coiled, burst of speed legs and gnarled paws--listening! ~ Kevin Moccia

The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun."
"They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial. ~ Lewis Carroll

Judge Fowler knew Clara was not long for the world--it was the manner of how she seized everything that gave her away. Clara was vibrant in youth, beautiful and radiant upon her wedding night beyond compare! But death cannot be masked from those who can see the outline of its features scribbled in the margins of another's being. ~ Kevin Moccia

That night Koch... tacked Chalmers down at a cocktail party for the conferencees and chastised him for his speech. It is precisely because philisophical approaches to consciousness have all failed that scientists must focue on the brain, Koch declared in his rapid-fire German-accented voice, his rubberneckers gathered. Chalmers's information-based theory of consciousness, Koch continued, liek all philosophical ideas, was untestable and therefore useless. "Why don't you just say that when you have a brain the Holy Ghost comes down and makes you conscious!" Koch exlaimed. Such a theory was unnecissarily complicated, Chalmers responded drily, and it would not accord with his own subjective experience. "But how do I know that your subjective experience is the same as mine?" Koch sputtered. "How do I even know you're conscious? ~ John Horgan

Eager toward day!" Striker howled. If Striker could have whistled a tune would have accompanied his ritual salutation, but his teeth were not those of a wandering troubadour, and his own tongue would have been deli sliced at the first "hi-ho". ~ Kevin Moccia

On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map. ~ Chris Holm

I believe in Individualism. Find out what makes you unique and develop it. Don't run with the herd. Set yourself apart so you can stand out. ~ Monica Koldyke Miller

Enlightenment and Orgasm are both personal affairs. Yet, both are treated poles apart by man ~ Soman Gouda

Twilight draped the fertile landscape, like a dampened threadbare sheet, hung over the sun to dry. ~ Kevin Moccia

After all, which would you rather do, pal, screw Bridget Bardot's brains out or read reviews of her movies? ~ M.T. Bass

Perhaps death is just a big lie. ~ Bella James

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong ~ Kathryn Schulz

Its not the respect we hold when we are alive but after death!!
-Mahesh Shekhar ~ Mahesh Shekhar

If you believe that God makes miracles you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve. ~ Jeff Lindsay

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558 ~ Steven Erikson

We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. ~ Jandy Nelson

Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment. ~ Cindy Vine

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. ~ Andrea L'Artiste

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Keys parachuted down into one of the exact seats he purchased that he and his father sat in as season ticket holders in the Old Barn on Grand River Avenue. Keys slipped his arm around the empty chair dressed with his father's withering Tiger's baseball cap, secured to the seat with a quarter inch drywall screw. Keys reflected upon his father, who chauffeured Keys and other players, every weekend, to a hockey tournament somewhere, "You know pop…every kid you gave a ride too game or practice, came to your funeral. When this hat falls away, no more screws, pop. I'm gonna branch out…make new friends. Soon as these gypsy moths get a hold of your precious, Old English "D", here--turn your glory years, Kaline and Mclain into tree threads. ~ Kevin Moccia

Welcome!" proclaimed, Barrister Homes with the fanfare of a wrinkled ringmaster, his palm frond ears bending like alien tentacles one upwards and one out. ~ Kevin Moccia

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Paul Romer

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. ~ Carroll Bryant

With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance. ~ Junichiro Tanizaki

If you have the time to give time some time, won't be a time that you will curse the time. ~ Soman Gouda

You are the only one who can. ~ Carroll Bryant

The scent of the sweating rabbits pressing against the cage, filled Striker's snout, causing him to drip huge drool wads--lathering the rabbits that pushed against the back of the cage with big, moist doggie loogies. ~ Kevin Moccia

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. ~ Carroll Bryant

This last year I've felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school. The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded. That's what I look like, a paper snowflake. And each hole has a name. And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again. ~ Amy Harmon

Never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost ... ~ Emery Lee

Whenever you phone call somebody, ask the first question "what you doing?". This way you bring them into the present and help them in their spiritual evolution!! ~ Soman Gouda

Why are we living? Because we are born! Why are we born? Because we have to live!. ~ Soman Gouda

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. ~ Dave Malloy

The moment when faith becomes more than rules, you've been taught," Noemi says. "When it becomes a living spirit within you, and guides you. When you're open to God's love and are finally able to show that love to others. I go to church like everyone else, and I pray and I hope...but I've never felt it. Sometimes I think I never will. ~ Claudia Gray

The male rabbits began chattering their teeth against another's, filling the room with a spastic, scratching sound, similar to a full shift of skate blades on a puck chase, cutting fresh ice.
"An animal on a farm has no worth if it isn't useful. I earned my right to survive--I'm named! ~ Kevin Moccia

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death. ~ Carroll Bryant

Striker counted twenty-eight rabbits pulling the roots at the front of the cage, with at least twenty more rabbits on each side and twenty or so pushing from the back. "I could easily kill them all!" Striker thought, as the ground gave way and everything went dark. ~ Kevin Moccia