Ebrat Pmerj Quotes & Sayings

Take stock of those around you and you will ... hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyse those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas to this reality. Quite the contrary: through these notions the individual is trying to cut off any personal vision of reality, of his own very life. For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his "ideas" are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality. — Ernest Becker

He was carrying bulky loot; I could see it under his zipped-up sweater. And when I unzipped it with a one-handed rip, I saw that he was wearing a bandolier loaded with grenades. I have no doubt that a wide, manic smile spread across my pretty little face. — Cherie Priest

He was the test I hadn't studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth. — Maria V. Snyder

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived. — Bill Bryson

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists. — Jared C. Wilson

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. — Mark Twain

Define your destiny and drive with abandon! — Gary Westfal

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You have climbed to the top of the skank tree, then fell ... and you banged every guy on the way down. — Christine Zolendz