AtomicQuote

Tom Robbins Quote

How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.

Tom Robbins

How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.

Related Quotes

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Robin Hobb

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Tags: consider, cool, counsel, discuss, head, heart, hothead, mind, protest, realize

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...

Seth Lloyd

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...

Tags: computers, society, information, human

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Billy Graham

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Tags: billy graham, christian life

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....

Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....

Tags: design, experience, bhadja, dharmesh, diversity, jobs, steve

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Tags: age, youth, old age, old

Not being happy really is my fear.

Keke Palmer

Not being happy really is my fear.

Tags: happy, being happy, being

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier

oladosu feyikogbon

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier

Tags: admire, advice, feyikogbon, inspirational, life, sad

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

Tags: adultery, affair, cheat, cheating, choice, dating, disloyal, disloyalty, extramarital affair, extramarital sex

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God w...

Kamand Kojouri

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God w...

Tags: accept, acceptance, apathy, beloved, bitter, bitterness, celebrate, celebrating, celebration, ceremony

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

Ary Hidayat

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

Tags: happy, honest, inspirational, life, love, memories, memory, sad, truth
About Tom Robbins

Thomas Eugene Robbins (July 22, 1932 – February 9, 2025) was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins had lived in La Conner, Washington, since 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".