Arzamas 19 Quotes & Sayings

I always start my day with a red-eye misto - two shots, extra hot, extra foam - from Starbucks. — Mika Brzezinski

the way you crib won't magnify the sympathy you get, but will only assist others in classifying your character. Look, — Keshav Aneel

You're either the bravest kid I've ever met or plain crazy. — James Dashner

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. — Hermann Hesse

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account. — Chris Martin

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe. — Daniel H. Wilson

The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life. — Bill Granger

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like: — Jude Deveraux

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. — C.S. Lewis

Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all — Lauryn Hill

( a court officer's assessment of a particularly obnoxious young defendant...)

"His mother shoulda ate him while his head was still soft."

This kills me every time... — Paddy Green