1984 Personification Quotes & Sayings

Invincible is just a word — Takehiko Inoue

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement. — Michael Shermer

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone. — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

It's always the same story: It's not 'violence' until somebody hits you back. Till then, you don't notice your guys hitting the other tribe. That's just normal background noise. It takes blood, buckets of it, to get a person's attention. And not just anybody's blood--it's gotta be your own, or that of a close relative. Otherwise it's just spots on the sidewalk. — Gary Brecher

He was not living his life; life was living him — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

These are tears and I am crying.
It is not a painful sensation, as I always thought it must be. It feels like the purest expression of feeling that it is possible to have. And the feeling mixes everything up together. Happiness. Sadness. Relief. Sorrow. Love. A mixture if things no psychiatrist ever felt. It is the most wonderful mixture in the world. — Harry Bingham

Do you know how often I've fantasized about the color of your nipples?" he growled against her neck before feathering soft kisses up to her jaw. — Katie Reus

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value. — Simon Sinek

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb. — Marge Piercy

What is it about coffee? It's the perfect beverage. It warms me, body and soul. And it makes me insanely happy. — Kim Holden

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. — Peter Gallagher

I don't have room for serious in my life."

He stepped close and brushed my lips with his, then spoke in a low tone. "I want you to be serious about me, — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. — Plotinus