Counts Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least. — Jacques Barzun

In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now. — Ann Druyan

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love. — Kenneth Oppel

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. — Stefan Molyneux

Nobody runs faster than the one who tries to escape his inner voice. — Irina Serban

the Christian view that this is a good world that has gone wrong, but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been. — C.S. Lewis

Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script. — Katee Sackhoff

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage
of arguments by which to support it. — Leszek Kolakowski

Why are you so pissed off? he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actually had any recollection of 90% of the conversations he was involved with. — Karina Halle