Gorsline Runciman Quotes & Sayings

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought. — B. Barmanbek

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world. — Kathryn Lasky

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams

(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.) — Michael Pollan

Mindfulness (present-moment awareness) is deliberately focusing our attention on our thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations and mental activity without losing awareness of what is happening in the present moment. It is essentially being in a state of present-moment awareness and maintaining clarity without being swayed or distracted by mental commentary. — Christopher Dines

I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself. — Rod Serling

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science? — Jerry A. Coyne

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound. — Cormac McCarthy

For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book. — Laura Furman