Elegantan Rep Quotes & Sayings

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them. — Alan Sokal

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting! — Samuel Richardson

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death. — Ellen Hopkins

What rules the world is ideas," Kristol once wrote, "because ideas define the way reality is perceived. — Anonymous

It isn't necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse ... Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It's the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives. — Martha Beck

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed. — William Monahan

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller

Reality is not what it used to be. — Wilhelm Von Homburg

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children. — Halldor Laxness

Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die. — Mishka

The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed. — Amit Ray

we become incarnational witnesses, people who must use our own lives to "put wheels on the gospel — Andrew Root

Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions. — Daniel Kahneman

The one thing he didn't do was discover the comet that bears his name. — Bill Bryson

On turf and curb and bower-roof
The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
And snivering stem its magic weaves
A mantle fair as lily-leaves. — John Townsend Trowbridge