Charles Koechlin Quotes & Sayings

The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied - and hold onto them. — Karl Schroeder

There's a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called "Is That
Your True Rejection?", and it works like this: Before you stake your
argument on a point, ask yourself in advance what you would say if that
point were decisively refuted. Would you relinquish your previous
conclusion? Would you actually change your mind? If not, maybe that point
isn't really the key issue. You should search instead for a sufficiently
important point, or collection of points, such that you would change your
mind about the conclusion if you changed your mind about the arguments.
It is, in our patois, "logically rude," to ask someone else to painstakingly
refute points you don't really care about yourself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Not every lost soul is a lost cause — M. Alice LeGrow

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. — Nancy Kerrigan

There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas. — Russell Simmons

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. — Charlotte Bronte

Look tough and no one messed with you. Look homicidal and they avoided you entirely. Which — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win. — Nabil N. Jamal

The human heart, you see, Mma Ramotswe, is pretty much the same wherever one goes. — Alexander McCall Smith

Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect. — Gia Carangi