Claims Toolkit Quotes & Sayings

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. — Carl Jung

Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change. — Martin E.P. Seligman

Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader. — Jeremy Young

Entrepreneurs, by definition, shift resources from areas of low productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. Of course, there is a risk they may not succeed. But if they are even moderately successful, the returns should be more than adequate to offset whatever risk there might be. — Peter F. Drucker

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? — Haruki Murakami

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation. — Neil Farber

I don't know that I ever planned on having children, but it's one thing to decide you aren't going to do something and another thing to be told that you can't do something. — Jay Gironimi

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca The Younger

Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something. — Jay Bell

The expression 'to lose one's faith', as one might a purse or a ring of keys, has always seemed to me rather foolish. It must be one of those sayings of bourgeois piety, a legacy of those wretched priests of the eighteenth century who talked so much.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it. That is why old-fashioned confessors are not far wrong in showing a certain amount of scepticism when dealing with 'intellectual crises', doubtless far more rare than people imagine. An educated man may come by degrees to tuck away his faith in some back corner of his brain, where he can find it again on reflection, by an effort of memory: yet even if he feels a tender regret for what no longer exists and might have been, the term 'faith' would nevertheless be inapplicable to such an abstraction, no more like real faith, to use a very well-worn simile, than the constellation of Cygne is like a swan. — Georges Bernanos

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on. — Cullen Hightower

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit? — Laura Wiess

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try. — Nikki Giovanni

There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to be asking her for advice, or for wisdom, standing there in the sunlight with the wind hushing in the dusty lilacs of their childhood and laundry swaying on the lines where their school clothes used to hang. — Marilynne Robinson