Honestique Quotes & Sayings

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? — Milan Kundera

You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes. — Craig Horner

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy — Friedrich Nietzsche

The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics. — David Goodstein

I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life. — Tony Hsieh

The past is all we know of the future. — Barbara Kingsolver

Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond. — Adyashanti

In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he like me?' 'Does he think I'm fat?' — Helen Fisher

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish. — Bryan Robson

I think I preferred him jaded. The world might be a better place were it ruled by disappointed souls. — Anthony Ryan

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. — Timothy Garton Ash

I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88 — Dean Koontz

No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
[Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.] — Sallust