Consilient Thinking Quotes & Sayings

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back. — Shaquille O'Neal

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. — Peter Carey

Someday our souls will be one and
our union will be forever.
I know that everything I give you comes back to me.
So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me. — Rumi

If you have a long list of highly-specific titles that you'd like to read, there's no guarantee that the Kindle Unlimited Selection would have all or most of them. — Tim Jones

Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion. — Anthony Doerr

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them.
If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had. — C.S. Lewis

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. — Frederik L. Schodt

I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes? — Jennifer Estep

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses. — Maggie Stiefvater

I closed my eyes, sucked in breath and felt like a slut.
This was mainly because I was acting like one. — Kristen Ashley

Now I have a sheep and cow, everybody bids me good morrow. — Benjamin Franklin

But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. But — Terry Pratchett

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland. — French Stewart

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out — Kevin Gates