Apperceptive Distortion Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people. — Holly Black

Bird, don't sound so crushed. The fact that I had never had sex before can only have been significant for me, if it had any meaning at all-it had nothing to do with you. — Kenzaburo Oe

Not for me. I hate fish. It's for Goddamn Cat. I want him served that regularly. — J.R. Ward

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground. — Adam Beach

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income. — Frank Bruno

Or maybe they're just keen on killing people. That's religion for you. — Terry Pratchett

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to. — Scott Walker

We don't fall in love with someone. We discover love in someone! — Avijeet Das

To all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it. — Victor Hugo

The despot subdues his subjects, some of them by means of others, and thus is he protected by those from whom, if they were decent men, he would have to guard against himself; just as, in order to split wood, one has to use a wedge of the wood itself. Such are his archers, his guards, his halberdiers; not that they do not suffer occasionally at his hands, but this riff-raff, abandoned alike by God and man, can be led to endure evil if permitted to commit it, not against him who exploits them, but against those who like themselves submit, but are helpless. — Etienne De La Boetie

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape! — Martin Zweig

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. — Jules Verne

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings. — Confucius