Decensus Quotes & Sayings

We are, each of us, a little Universe — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this? — Kamand Kojouri

And perhaps it was that same stubbornness that had allowed their love to survive and last for as long as it had. After so many untold years together, it was still not enough, would never be enough although eternity stretched before them. — Melinda O'Donnell

We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth. — Adam Hamilton

King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically... — S. Nassir Ghaemi

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of the natural order that does not reveal it as something to be expected can aspire even to the outline of completeness. And if physical science, whatever it may have to say about the origin of life, leaves us necessarily in the dark about consciousness, that shows that it cannot provide the basic form of intelligibility for this world. There must be a very different way in which t hings as they are make sense, and that includes the physical world, since the problem cannot be quarantined in the mind. — Thomas Nagel

There was a delicious possessiveness in the way he kissed her, as if he were staking his claim at the same time he was burning away the memories of anyone else for her. And he did. In an instant, there was nobody but him. — J. Lynn

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. — Stephanie M. Sellers

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1. — Susane Colasanti

Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people. — D. L. Hughley

There was a certain beauty in waiting. This is why he didn't immediately put his hands on her. Even though every fiber of his being cried out for him to touch her, he held back and contemplated this unexpected moment.
Grady Bergeron, my hero in Watch Me — Riley Murphy

I don't do anything I'm not good at. — Brenna Yovanoff

The equation on the page ... began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred like a peacock's; and, when the eyes and stars of its indices had been eliminated, began slowly to fold itself together again. The indices appearing and disappearing were eyes opening and closing; the eyes opening and closing were stars being born and being quenched. — James Joyce

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side — Mark Twain

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. — Virgil

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all. — James Hillman