Immaterial Sophie Quotes & Sayings

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up. — Joseph Heller

You'd think I would know better than to get involved with someone in my own department. But I'm really crap at resisting sexual tension. Oh, it's entertaining for a few weeks, the fuzzy sting that rushes down your vertebra to your groin when the eyes meet, the banter spiked with innuendo - then it becomes irritating, and you need to get it out of your system. Neutralize it by indulging it, which is fine, assuming you can both keep it tidy. — Lauren Beukes

As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life. — George Whitefield

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. — Paul Virilio

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated. — Naomi Shihab Nye

To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation. — Rajneesh

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art. — Randall Jarrell

I fell back from him then, I lay next to him thinking, as I had had cause to think before, of how helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat, how ridiculous it becomes the moment it isn't welcomed, even if that welcome is contrived. — Garth Greenwell

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. — John Stott

He had never been so anxious for the arrival of a woman he did not want to see. — David Foster Wallace

Poverty is the origin of invention — Sunday Adelaja

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be. — Joan Jett

When you innovate,
expect to make mistakes.
When you don't innovate,
expect your competitors to surpass you. — Matshona Dhliwayo