Absolutista Quotes & Sayings

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some sense of ongoing, of "next," is always with us. But this sense of movement, of happening, Greg lacked; he seemed immured, without knowing it, in a motionless, timeless moment. And whereas for the rest of us the present is given its meaning and depth by the past (hence it becomes the "remembered present," in Gerald Edelman's term), as well as being given potential and tension by the future, for Greg it was flat and (in its meager way) complete. This living-in-the-moment, which was so manifestly pathological, had been perceived in the temple as an achievement of higher consciousness. G — Oliver Sacks

So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah." — Laura Prepon

And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again. — Dorothy Dunnett

Need a triumph, his demon whined.
I'll get you one. Promise.
Sure?
What are you, Doubt? Yeah, I'm sure. — Gena Showalter

If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards. — Emmuska Orczy

depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person. — Sanober Khan

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things. — Ezekiel Emanuel

Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind. — Stephen R. Covey

I couldn't even find it in me to be annoyed — Mariana Zapata

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. — Alan Perlis

...It's more like a corkscrew than a path! — Lewis Carroll