Distraction And Forgetfulness Quotes & Sayings

Clever girl, Lucas thought. I could strangle her right about now. [for Helen] — Josephine Angelini

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. — Ron Lewis

One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul. — Sophia Lyon Fahs

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. — Charles Perrault

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer. — Rachel Holmes

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. — Wendell Pierce

I believe ... that security declines as security machinery expands. — E.B. White

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight. — Max Anders

The median-aged CNN viewer is 60. For Fox, it's 68. — Anonymous

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which makes him feel his own littleness; the eternal, the infinite, perfection, therefore scare and terrify him. He wishes to approve himself, to admire and congratulate himself; and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness. — Henri Frederic Amiel