Esclarecidos Quotes & Sayings

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts. — S.E. Hinton

She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won't submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key. — Donna Lynn Hope

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. — Charles Dickens

Someone once commented that I have a great thirst for knowledge, to which I replied, What the hell? I'll drink anything. — Tom Robbins

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new. — Marshall McLuhan

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic. — Edward Albee

As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world — William Carlos Williams

What's interesting about you is you. — Alonzo King

Justice is the essence of peace — Ali Abunimah

And I was thinking just the opposite, Boots. Forever isn't going to be nearly long enough for us. — Jillian Dodd

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish. — Drew Brees

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [ ... ] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups. — Clay Shirky

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. — J.K. Rowling

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class (like my Penn sample) is the most unusual of all. — Jonathan Haidt