Desfosses Law Quotes & Sayings

We reached to pick up the vase at the same time, and our fingertips touched. A current of energy pulsed through his hand to mine. My skin felt too small, stretched too tight, as if searching out more exposure to his. I heard several pings, and the table went dark. — Myra McEntire

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three. — Jenny Offill

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. — Christopher Dutton

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1. — Alanis Morissette

Passionately pursue your goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home ... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep. — Robin McKinley

What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? "Lift weights or learn karate," said O'Grady. — Michael Lewis

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad. — Sam Kinison

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants. — Ofir Drori

In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything. Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can't. — Peter Thiel

Yuka could not fight that man, but I could become the fangs that would protect her. — Otsuichi

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another. — Idries Shah