Discolorations Circle Quotes & Sayings

The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you. — Dean Frazer

Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not allowed his doubt to curdle into cynicism, who, for all his dark prognostication, was a figure of tremendous hope. The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable. — Steve Almond

I have a poorly done tribal armband that i got when i was 16, i love showing it to people because it totally sucks — Jade Puget

Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks. — Ettore Bugatti

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony. — Kina Grannis

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable. — Peter Coyote

Time is the greatest enemy of fulfilment . — Osunsakin Adewale

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table. — Moshe Dayan

Seances occur only in darkened rooms, where the ghostly visitors can be seen dimly at best. If we turn up the lights a little, so we have a chance to see what's going on, the spirits vanish. They're shy, we're told, and some of us believe it. In twentieth-century parapsychology laboratories, there is the 'observer effect': those described as gifted psychics find that their powers diminish markedly whenever sceptics arrive, and disappear altogether in the presence of a conjuror as skilled as James Randi. What they need is darkness and gullibility. — Carl Sagan

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves. — Bill W.

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can — Albert Bandura

Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same. — Claire Legrand

When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God. — Amos Smith

-Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million. — J.D. Salinger