Acutes And Chronics Quotes & Sayings

Skilled arguers ... are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views. — Jonathan Haidt

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it. — Paul Claudel

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss

If you wanted to feel you were still somehow in control of a ship or a fleet or even your civilisation, talking amongst yourselves seemed to be the way you convinced yourself of it. — Iain M. Banks

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. — Anne Lamott

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. — Richard C. Armitage

To live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountain to reach the peak without experiencing its sides. The sides of the mountain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow, experience is gained, and technologies are mastered. The importance of the peak lies only in the fact that it defines the sides. So I went on towards the top, but always experiencing the sides. I had a long way to go but I was in no hurry. I went in little steps - just one step after another - but each step towards the top. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys. — Charlaine Harris

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you. — Amy Waldman

There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner. — George Eliot

The only thing that will ever be real, is this moment,' I turned to the statue, 'when you made me feel alive, when you made me feel real, when I felt like you really love me. Now? I'm just your monster, Frankie. I will always be a monster. — Rae Hachton

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. — Jean Giono

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid. — John LeFevre