Adeodato Quotes & Sayings

I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special. — Pierce Brown

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished. — Oscar Wilde

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East's exuberant vision of the West, the West's uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna - the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation. — M. John Harrison

At my father's club, sitting before the fire, we had spoken of 'moments made eternity', meaning what are called timeless moments, moments precisely without the pressure of time--moments that might be called, indeed, timeful moments. And we had clearly understood that the pressure of time was our nearly inescapable awareness of an approaching terminus-the bell about to ring, the holiday about to end, the going down from Oxford foreseen...Life itself is pressured by death, the final terminus. Socrates refused to delay his own death for a few more hours: perhaps he knew that those few hours under the pressure of time would be worth little....Awareness of duration, of terminus, spoils Now. — Sheldon Vanauken

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new. — Prince Royce

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. — Wilhelm Wundt

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. — Elizabeth Warren

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party. — P. J. O'Rourke

how can plankton make a shark embarrassed of itself? The correct answer is: it can't. — Krista Ritchie

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius — William Crashaw

As children, we are taught what I call Emotional English. This is an emotional language we are taught in our homes, and just like our spoken language, the emotional language we speak most fluently as adults is the one we learned as children. What we are taught about interacting emotionally with each other and the world is modeled for us by our families, and is what we will grow up doing. No matter how frustrating , damaging, and frightening it is, we will perpetuate the examples of our parents and family
unless we can learn new ones. The tricky thing is that a person can go to school to learn a new language, we can find classes anywhere, in any town, but how do we learn a new emotional way of relating to our lives, loved ones, and most important, to ourselves? — Jewel