1716 Lofts Quotes & Sayings

Open. Silence fell around the sisters as they squeezed through the room. — Skye Callahan

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added). — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out. — Jacquelyn Jablonski

You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. [...] As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness". — Tim Kreider

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare? — Mark Twain

Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress. — Dean L. Larsen

By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death. — Rollo May

Every machine is the spiritualization of an organism. — Theo Van Doesburg

men, especially in the African American community" know they're not supposed to cry or "bow down, — Kwame Kilpatrick

What neuroscience has revealed is that there is no such control center in the brain. There are hubs in our brain networks whose activity is more influential than others; however, there is no one single hub that dictates action. Our brains are much more like an ant colony: billions of neurons collaborating to give rise to our selves without any external or internal agent. In other words you are an emergent self-organizing phenomenon. — Andrew Smart