Egocentricity Index Quotes & Sayings

I shrank back, my face flaming as if I'd been struck. And in that moment something changed. I didn't trust her anymore. When she cried, I felt numb. After that, she called me heartless, unfeeling. And maybe I was. A — Christina Baker Kline

He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose. — Frank Herbert

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure. — Seth Klarman

Watching him watching his hands, I figured I could ask him to build me a model of the Sistine Chapel with miniature true to life detailing then a shed we could display it in, advertise it and sell tickets and he would have said, Works for me. — Kristen Ashley

When they'd gone the old man turned around to watch the sun's slow descent. The Boat of Millions of Years, he thought; the boat of the dying sungod Ra, tacking down the western sky to the source of the dark river that runs through the underworld from west to east, through the twelve hours of the night, at the far eastern end of which the boat will tomorrow reappear, bearing a once again youthful, newly reignited sun.
Or, he thought bitterly, removed from us by a distance the universe shouldn't even be able to encompass, it's a vast motionless globe of burning gas, around which this little ball of a planet rolls like a pellet of dung propelled by a kephera beetle.
Take your pick, he told himself as he started slowly down the hill ... But be willing to die for your choice. — Tim Powers

A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said. — Peter V. Brett

Instead of replying with my usual open-your-mind speech, I send love to my mother. Mom, I love you even though you are a critical, unforgiving horror show. This casserole sucks, but I like the way you roasted the walnuts. — A.S. King

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question. — Danny Fox

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. — David Hume

The gift of life is a great grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart. — Robin Trower

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it. — Henry Williamson

My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people. — Scott Pruett