Adaevents Quotes & Sayings

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes. — Mark Consuelos

We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems. — Walter Brueggemann

Yes", Kumiko said, seriously. "Exactly that. The extraordinary happens all the time. So much, we can't take it. Life and happiness and heartache and love. If we couldn't put it in story - "
"And explain it -"
"No!" she said, suddenly sharp. "Not explain. Stories do not explain. They seem to, but all they provide is a starting point. The story never ends at the end. There is always after. And even within itself, even by saying that this version is the right one, it suggests other versions, versions that exist in parallel. No, story is not an explanation, it is a net, a net through which the truth flows. The net catches some of the truth, but not all, never all, only enough so that we can live with the extraordinary without it killing us." She sagged a little, as if exhausted by this speech. "As it surely, surely would. — Patrick Ness

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? — Ally Condie

Jeremy Bentham opened his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation with the famous sentence Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. — Daniel Kahneman

I will come back to you. And you will come back to me. Wait for me. — Glen Duncan

After a few dates, he'd propose marriage over a bottle of wine. — Jude Deveraux

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. — Jimmy Johnson

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted. — Frederick Franck

Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded. — Dorit Brauer

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes. — Albert Einstein

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray