Gradated Quotes & Sayings

A penniless, jobless old college friend who had been offered several loans from banks to buy a house he couldn't afford. That's — Michael Lewis

Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company. — Mark Lynas

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense. — Eraldo Banovac

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate. — Edsger Dijkstra

Didn't you have one when you were little? What was his name, Hopper?" "Yeah," I said, resisting the urge to punch him on the arm. Hopper? Really? "Best rabbit ever. — Richelle Mead

He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week. — Allan Folsom

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain. — Bernard DeVoto

To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms. — Frederick Lenz

At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present. — J.G. Ballard

Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything. — Frederick Lenz

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul. — Simone Weil

Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. — Sara Coleridge

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies. — Susan Sarandon

Desire is no light thing. — Anne Carson