1984 Chapter 1 Quotes & Sayings

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity.When one is given an anesthetic in preparation for surgery, it is not merely the capacity to experience pain that is suspended; the capacity to experience pleasure goes also - because what is blocked is the capacity to experience *feeling*. The same principle applies to the repression of emotions.
Chapter 1: Discovering the Unknown Self, pg. 9, Bantam Edition, 1984 — Nathaniel Branden

I used to quite fancy Russell Brand, but I'm not sure if it's just because he's funny. He's definitely got something and I can't just switch all that off because of one stupid moment. I fancy Barack Obama too, which is a wrong crush, isn't it? He's a married man, and he's quite old, but he looks young, so he's fair game. — Konnie Huq

Every time that you read a book that is worth anything, the author has put everything they know into that book; so when you read that book, you eat their life. You kind of go up a level; so if you read 50 books, you've lived 50 lifetimes.
CBC interview Q with Jian Gomeshi Sept.23, 2014 — Caitlin Moran

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. — Paracelsus

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness. — Michael Morpurgo

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove. — Gordon Lightfoot

Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The — Norman Fischer

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place. — Sabrina Ward Harrison

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn. — John Cleese

Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way. — Charlie Lovett

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? — Henry David Thoreau

Okay, I can see that you're set on this bat shit crazy adventure. You want to go Eat Love Pray, I can follow that. — Kathryn Perez

We need to get over that myth. There was nothing Judeo-Christian about American history. Nobody liked Catholics and Jews. It's Anglo-Protestant values, not Judeo-Christian values. Even Maryland very quickly stopped being so Catholic-friendly. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie