Discursiveness Define Quotes & Sayings

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement. — Nicholas Carr

There's no escaping it,' he'd been fond of telling us when he was well, 'the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six billion people could be wrong, but you'll never get them to admit it. — Paul Murray

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

As far as Wyatt Earp knew, it was not illegal to beat a horse. In the past few years, he'd worked as a part-time policeman in a string of Kansas cow towns. Each time he was sworn in, he made an effort to study the ordinances he was supposed to enforce, but he wasn't much of a reader. In Ellsworth, he asked a lawyer for some help. "Wyatt," the man told him, "the entire criminal code of the State of Kansas boils down to four words. Don't kill the customers. — Mary Doria Russell

You aren't understood, and I can't explain it. That doesn't mean you're crazy. — Courtney Cole

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy. — Jojo Moyes

Rather than focusing solely on what's new and different about the change to come, make an effort to remind people what's already been conquered. — Chip Heath

We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul. — Lancelot Andrewes

He's jealous because lions are better hunters."
Monroe
"Are you compensating for something, Monroe?"
Bastian — Bethany Averie

Ending a series is a difficult one ... where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that. — Shandy L. Kurth

I was a foodie and I continue to be a foodie. — Alicia Silverstone

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. — Martin Heidegger

As much as she might argue otherwise, his mother was a fragile woman. — Reif Larsen