Cosmicomics Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record. — Mariah Carey

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking. — Tariq Ramadan

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... there is a wisdom of the heart. — Charles Dickens

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. — Myriam Miedzian

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who? — Bruce Willis

A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception. — Ajahn Chah

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. — Richard Whately

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

Above all, don't overestimate your own power as an individual. Founders are important not because they are the only ones whose work has value, but rather because a great founder can bring out the best work from everybody at his company. That we need individual founders in all their peculiarity does not mean that we are called to worship Ayn Randian "prime movers" who claim to be independent of everybody around them. In this respect Rand was a merely half-great writer: her villains were real, but her heroes were fake. There is no Galt's Gulch. There is no secession from society. To believe yourself invested with divine self-sufficiency is not the mark of a strong individual, but of a person who has mistaken the crowd's worship - or jeering - for the truth. The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom. — Anonymous

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books. — Kimberly Willis Holt

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives. — Joyce Meyer

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it. — Lisa Bevere