Altered States Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share. — Walter Pater

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. — Paul The Apostle

I find it amusing that progressives go on about "greed" and "selfishness" when they are the greediest, most selfish people of all. From the progressive viewpoint, Gates is a greedy, selfish guy because he has more than $50 billion and what can a man possibly want with that much money? (I'm reminded here of Obama's 2010 comment, made in the context of the financial reform debate, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.")12 The progressive solution is to force Gates to part with some, or most, of that money so that they can deploy it as they see fit. This is the progressive equivalent of Amartya Sen's "who gets the flute. — Dinesh D'Souza

I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight. — Jennifer Aniston

People use the word "should" to mask their wish or need. Instead of directly stating what they want, they construct a stipulation without naming a person responsible for carrying it out. — Michael Nir

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion. — Pope Dionysius

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts. — Samuel Rogers

The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
"The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ. — Matthew Reilly

Reading is the strangest art. Your eye takes a shape, turns it into music, then story, then spirit, so a curl of ink laid long ago by a sliver of reed can become, a thousand years later, your own breath. — Keith Miller

Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. — Joyce Carol Oates

Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes. — Brad Goreski

I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat. — Jessica Zafra