Consistencies And Inconsistencies Quotes & Sayings

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work. — Gena Showalter

Then it comes. Your lungs suck in air; your body decides for you.

You will live.

You're one breath away from her, then two, then three, then four, then five.

Mom, I am still breathing. — Virginia Bergin

But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. Even the confrontation with disease should be approached with the realization that many of the sicknesses of our species are simply conveyances for the inexorable journey by which each of us is returned to the same state of physical, and perhaps spiritual, nonexistence from which we emerged at conception. Every triumph over some major pathology, no matter how ringing the victory, is only a reprieve from the inevitable end. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. — Mark Twain

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown ... — Henry Miller

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female. — Laozi

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless. — Les Dawson

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me
and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies. — Myles Horton

We always prized him, but never so much as now, when we are going to lose him. — Mark Twain

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil

We'd been drinking for something like fourteen hours straight when the moment had come, the bell, so to speak, was tolling, and it was time for me to leave Oslo behind. — Loren Niva

I say, if it's love, the Lord won't mind. There's enough hate in the world. — Gordon Merrick

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance. — Hans Selye