Assent At Sea Quotes & Sayings

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you. — Serenity Rey

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.' — Stephen LaBerge

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art. — Esperanza Spalding

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options. — James Vincent McMorrow

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. — Jeremy Bentham

Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible). — Alan Janney

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. — Bono

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. — Jimi Hendrix

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it ... — Mark Helprin

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed. — Jude Deveraux

When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self. — Eckhart Tolle

One of the reasons that most literary artists are contemptuous of Sigmund Freud - whose thought Vladimir Nabokov once characterized as no more than private parts covered up by Greek myths - is that his extreme determinism is felt to be immensely untrue to the rich complexity of life, with its twists and turns and manifold surprises. — Joseph Epstein