72 Derwents Quotes & Sayings

As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us. — Sam Keen

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. — Doris Lessing

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others. — Robin Sloan

I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. — Terry Pratchett

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest. — James Caan

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down. — Sunday Adelaja

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic. — Lauren Groff

You can never hide from your truth. If you do, you will always be lost. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it. — Jaime Murray

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. — Christopher McDougall

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people. — Mick Jagger

It's been said that if you don't toot your own horn, someone will come along and use it as a spittoon. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. — Larry Page