Analicia Chaves Quotes & Sayings

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. — Michel De Montaigne

Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. — Augustine Of Hippo

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I am no longer surprised by anything and I feel no distress at seeing my complete helplessness. On the contrary, I glory in it and every day I expect to discover fresh flaws in myself. In fact, this revelation of my nothingness does me much more good than being enlightened on matters of faith. — John Beevers

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately. — Alan Thicke

Clovis,' Nico growled, 'for the gods' sake, stop dreaming so powerfully! — Rick Riordan

Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking! — Sophie Blackall

He's evil," I said. "You're good. You must make your own choice. — Rick Riordan

Those girls aren't mine; you are. I don't see them. I see you. I've only ever seen you. — Yuli Pritania

I think I'm very complex. That's why I'm still writing after all of these years — Milena Gomez

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable
that is a truism
but conceptually incoherent ... Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss. — Isaiah Berlin

The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating
allegedly
the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries. — Jon Stewart

I love myself when I am laughing. — Zora Neale Hurston

It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, 'That's great! Wait, WHAT?' — Jimmy Fallon