Assentive Quotes & Sayings

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. — Eugen Herrigel

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive. — Ambrose Bierce

The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn't much of a choice at all. — Maggie Stiefvater

You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists. — Nayyirah Waheed

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays. — Jerome Kern

We know the way; we got our knowledge of it from thousands of years in the labyrinth. Who else has found it? - The man of today? - "I don't know either the way out or the way in; I am whatever doesn't know either the way out or the way in" - so sighs the man of today ... . This is the sort of modernity that made us ill, - we sickened on lazy peace — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it. — Gary Barlow

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms. — Simon Mainwaring

The essence of bigotry is denying others the same rights you claim for yourself. Green bigots are a classic example. — Thomas Sowell

Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome ... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook. — Patti Stanger

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism — Nelson Mandela

And what am I to do?"
"Well, that depends. Do you like the girl?"
"Like her? I don't know. How do you know if ... ?"
"It's very simple. Do you look at her furtively and feel like biting her?"
"Biting her?"
"On her backside, for example. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The great movement of the spiritual life is from a deaf, nonhearing life to a life of listening. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room. — Jess Walter

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: 'Excuse me, it was all a dream,' and by that time I may have found one who will say: 'Not at all, it was true, absolutely true. — Anais Nin

I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand. — Tiffanie DeBartolo