Bookaboo Amazon Quotes & Sayings

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. — Evelyn Underhill

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely. — Alex Berenson

The circles of shame are vicious. Painful feelings of shame help cause people to be depressed and suicidal, these in turn become shameful aspects of the self. Being angry does not necessarily cause more anger, being envious does not necessarily cause more envy (though once we envy, we can also envy someone's lack of envy), but, in our culture at least, shame (and envy and self-pity) are things to be ashamed about. The two common feelings of suicide are hopelessness and powerlessness; each is shameful, and this additional experience of shame adds pain on pain. A man who despairs because he feels his prospects of having a family are hopeless also feels he will never lose the feeling of shame over being wifeless and childless. To be powerless to change one's life in ways that others can is cause to feel ashamed of one's powerlessness. — David L. Conroy

People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. — Sandra Cisneros

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself — Orson Scott Card

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. — Bradley Whitford

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful. — Chris Martin

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. — Jeffrey Eugenides

When he closed his eyes, everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest place in the world. The middle of nowhere. — John Boyne

The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all. — Drew Barrymore

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. — Eric Hoffer