Desipience Quotes & Sayings

Unless he suddenly turns out to be a total psycho, he's a keeper — Kevin O'Brien

There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police. — Emma Sulkowicz

The world is full of people who believe what they want to be true. — Dianne K. Salerni

Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey. — John Fowles

The heart was a mansion with infinite rooms inside.

-The Widowed Bride by Elizabeth Lane — Elizabeth Lane

The 'secret' of Shostakovich, it was suggested - by a Chinese neurologist, Dr Dajue Wang - was the presence of a metallic splinter, a mobile shell-fragment, in his brain, in the temporal horn of the left ventricle. Shostakovich was very reluctant, apparently, to have this removed:
Since the fragment had been there, he said, each time he leaned his head to one side he could hear music. His head was filled with melodies - different each time - which he then made use of when composing.
X-rays allegedly showed the fragment moving around when Shostakovich moved his head, pressing against his 'musical' temporal lobe, when he tilted, producing an infinity of melodies which his genius could use. — Oliver Sacks

I want to be treated like a human being. — Rosa Parks

No punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment. — Parker J. Palmer

I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful. — Tommy Lee

Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. — Bruce Springsteen

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like. — Mindy Kaling

All publicity works upon anxiety. — John Berger