Confabulatory Quotes & Sayings

The ordeals at the airport, she said, had made her feel helpless and pathetic and lost. The strange way they spoke. Her diminishing supply of money. The cab rides through the mountains. The rain and heat. And the edge, the dark edge, the inwrought mood or tone, the ominous logic of the place. It was all dreamlike, a nightmare of isolation and constraint. She had to get off the island. — Anonymous

The matter does not appear to appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then. — Robert H. Jackson

All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering. — Neale Donald Walsch

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana

You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to the effects in your life, and you make them up without realizing it when you don't know the answers. Over time, these explanations become your idea of who you are and your place in the world. They are your self ... You are a story you tell yourself. — David McRaney

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog. — Niall Horan

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series. — Cullen Bunn

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you! — Jaclyn Moriarty

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do. — Frederick Lenz

Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world. — Julie Bishop

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos. — Peter Greenaway