Hotrrefuge Quotes & Sayings

The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison. — Kenneth Eade

We are beginning to learn that an empathic moment requires both intimate engagement and a measure of detachment. If our feelings completely spill over into another's feelings or their feelings overwhelm our psyche, we lose a sense of self and the ability to imagine the other as if they were us. Empathy is a difficult balancing act. One has to be open to experiencing another's plight as if it were one's own but not be engulfed by it, at the expense of drowning out the self's ability to be a unique and separate being. Empathy requires a porous boundary between I and thou that allows the identity of two beings to mingle in a shared mental space.
- The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis — Jeremy Rifkin

Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul.
Until my tears land upon Greek soil, I shall forever live in exile. — Pietros Maneos

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world. — Hasso Plattner

Art is an artificial organization of experience ... — Sara Maitland

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. — Mary Everest Boole

You have to link what you want to say to what others' needs are. — John C. Maxwell

The kid looked at the man. His head was strangely narrow and his hair was plastered up with mud in a bizarre and primitive coiffure. On his forehead were burned the letters H T and lower and almost between the eyes the letter F and these markings were splayed and garish as if the iron had been left too long. When he turned to look at the kid the kid could see that he had no ears. — Cormac McCarthy

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor. — Sylvester Stallone

Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place. — Harvey MacKay

If the baby needs a bed," George offered, "Simon and I could keep him in our sock drawer."
Simon gave George an appalled glare. George looked distressed. — Cassandra Clare

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes. — Michael Koryta

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy. — Delano Johnson

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics. — Kurt Vonnegut