Adicards Quotes & Sayings

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears. — Alan W. Watts

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. — Wallace D. Wattles

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe. — Cyril Connolly

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] — Ovid

I followed the trail out of the room, invigorated by the possibility of reinventing my own body. The meaning was mine, as long as I was with those who had the vision and vocabulary to understand my creation. — Nick Krieger

He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter. — Larry McMurtry

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about. — Neel Burton

True love in my view can only flourish in conditions where there is a mixture of freedom and constraint. An imposed love, sanctioned by law and blessed by a priest does not really seem the same thing at all — Guy De Maupassant