Imbibing Quotes

• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Opportunity, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.12, Vintage

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• Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Desire, Four

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• Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Reading, Doors, Pursuit

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• We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

  Howard Zinn

  Responsibility, Ideas, Long

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.684, Seven Stories Press

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• It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Tunnels, Vision

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

  Howard Zinn

  Responsibility, Simple, Years

  "Changing Minds, One at a Time" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 10, 2005.

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• I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

  John Oliver

  Oxygen, Water, Care

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Children, Writing

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kings, Home, Kids

  Fuente: www.progressive.org

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• it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Prejudice, Absurd, Educated

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Broadview Press

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• But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heart, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.477, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

  Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

  Air, Sky, Breathing

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• De todas las supersticiones que afectan a la India, ninguna es tan grande como la de que el conocimiento de la lengua inglesa es necesario para imbuirse de ideas de libertad y desarrollar la precisión del pensamiento.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

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• Mi religión me prohíbe menospreciar o despreciar otras culturas, ya que insiste, bajo pena de suicidio civil, en imbuirme y vivir la mía.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Other Cultures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). "India of My Dreams", p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

  Monique Truong

  Glasses, Vintage, People

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La lógica: La lectura es un pasatiempo privado, que a menudo tiene lugar a puerta cerrada. Una joven puede retirarse con un libro, puede incluso llevárselo a su tocador, y allí, recostada en sus sábanas de seda, absorbiendo la emoción y el escalofrío fabricados por las plumas de escritor, una de sus manos, la que no es absolutamente necesaria para agarrar el pequeño volumen, puede vagar. El miedo, en resumen, como lectura con una sola mano. [p. 146]

  Siri Hustvedt

  Libro, Lectura, Puertas

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). "El verano sin hombres", p.71, Hachette UK

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• La tierra es una máquina que presta un servicio casi gratuito a toda aplicación del intelecto. Cada planta es un fabricante de tierra. En el estómago de la planta comienza el desarrollo. El árbol puede absorber todo el aire, toda la tierra, toda la corriente rodante. La planta es toda una tubería de succión, absorbiendo del suelo por su raíz, del aire por sus hojas, con toda su fuerza.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Raíces, rendimiento, aire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). "Las Obras Completas de Ralph Waldo Emerson", p.144, Рипол Классик

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