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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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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• Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

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

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• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  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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• The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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