Deafferentated Quotes & Sayings

The things that mattered
Were broken and shattered
One by one — Jonny Lang

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics. — Pankaj Mishra

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy

Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's? — Jaye Wells

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living. — Richelle Mead

In the one branch he most needed — Henry Adams

The most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it ... The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chatting about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no? — Mick Cochrane

Love ultimately wins, Hannah. Love ultimately saves. — Kelly Quindlen

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time. — Ben Bernanke

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life. — Samuel Smiles

...passions, poetry and the ego have been seen as perpetual explosions? But if that's true, then so its its opposite; ever since that August when athe mushroom rose over cities reduced to a layer of ash, an age was born in which the explosion is symbolic only of absolute negation. — Italo Calvino

I wouldn't know what being in love felt like if it hit me in the face — Jodi Picoult

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much." — Chellis Glendinning

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap. — Elinor Glyn