Absceso Cerebral Quotes & Sayings

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity. — Agnes Repplier

Real gifts don't demand reciprocation (at least not direct reciprocation), and the best kinds of gifts are gifts of art. — Seth Godin

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do. — Stan Laurel

A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles ... — Judith Herrin

My ambition is peace and perfection. — DeForest Kelley

They locked him in the stockade for four days. No other prisoners occupied the other cells that ran the length of the room. He was alone, and that was fine with him. He needed to think, and that was best done in a place where he wouldn't see Ginesse Braxton - Ginesse, not Mildred - because she did things to his thought processes, such as dammed them up completely.
She acted and he reacted: viscerally, irrepressibly, and ruinously.
She fell in the water; he dove in after her. She laughed; he smiled. She mentioned the beauty of the sunset; he saw colors in it he hadn't ever noticed. She peeked at him from under her gold-tipped lashes; he grew hard as Damascus steel. Pomfrey said something derogatory; he wanted to kill the sonofabitch with his bare hands.
Things like that. — Connie Brockway

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. — Corliss Lamont

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ. — Colin Quinn

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head
So I don't dare start thinking in the morning. — Langston Hughes

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power. — Randal Marlin

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. — Drew Endy

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah