Diagrammed Quotes & Sayings

I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young. — Louise Erdrich

Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they? How is this subsumed pain vented? Is it released in my art? I hope so, but I also suspect that it's emitted in my sleep. — Keith Murray

Life is all about moving forward, but sometimes it must be done in reverse. — Scott Martin

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. — Hippocrates

There is no higher soul than that of man and it is from man that the stone of eternal life must be drawn. Therefore the book that contains the knowledge of that stone must be wrapped in human flesh. No matter how sick a man might be, no matter what his deformities, his healing lies within these pages. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness. — Penn Jillette

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs. — Emilia Clarke

The common denominator in all these problems is that the world is not a line of dominoes in which each event causes exactly one event and is caused by exactly one event. The world is a tissue of causes and effects that criss and cross in tangled patterns. The embarrassments for Hume's two theories of causation (conjunction and counterfactuals) can be diagrammed as a family of networks in which the lines fan in or out or loop around, as in the diagram on the following page. — Steven Pinker

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. — Julia Cameron

Let us learn to adapt our ways to the generosity of Nature. Let us learn to care, yet without letting care itself bring us down. Let us learn to think, yet without letting thought be our only master. Let us learn to die, yet without believing in death. — Patrick Woodroffe

It is impossible to be far from someone who lives inside your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself. — Sydney Pollack

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds. — William Morris

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. — Isabel Paterson

Don't follow your passions; follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success. — Brant Cooper

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it. — George C. Marshall

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. — Maeve Binchy