Coherently Derived Quotes & Sayings

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago. — Terence McKenna

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison

We are all descendants of murderers and thieves. — Amanda Sledz

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. — Noah Feldman

It is very easy to dance if you have a musical ear,and if you have been in the habit of making your body do what you want. So few people seem to be trained to make their limbs obey them. Mine have had to do as they were told since I was a child," she answered calmly. — E.M. Hull

Because fulfillment is an illusion, the wise must devote themselves to avoiding pain rather than seeking pleasure, living quietly, as Schopenhauer counseled, 'in a small fireproof room' - advice that now struck Nietzsche as both timid and untrue, a perverse attempt to dwell, as he was to put it pejoratively several years later, 'hidden in forests like shy deer.' Fulfillment was to be reached not by avoiding pain, but by recognizing its role as a natural, inevitable step on the way to reaching anything good. — Alain De Botton

Victimism uses the ideology of concern for victims to gain political or economic or spiritual power. — Rene Girard

I'll be on another case soon. You won't need me anymore. You'll be walking, though I think you should wait a while before climbing another mountain."

"You're my therapist," Blake snapped.

Dione gave a little laugh. "For months you've depended on me more than any other person in your life. Your perspective is distorted now.
Believe me, by the time I've been gone a month, you won't even think about me."

'Do you mean you'd just turn your back on me and walk away?" he asked disbelievingly. — Linda Howard

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cannibals need love too. — Kresley Cole

The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened. — Jesse Johnson

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own. — T.D. Jakes